[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20101019202912.GA30133@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:29:12 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
codalist@...emann.coda.cs.cmu.edu,
ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
autofs@...ux.kernel.org, Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>,
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@...cvut.cz>,
Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:40:47PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2010, 21:37:35 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support.
> > >
> > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf
> > > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf
> >
> > Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the
> > driver and be done with it, right?
>
> No,
>
> you still need to switch off preemption.
Hm, how would you do that from within a driver?
thanks,
greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists