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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 07:36:30 +1000
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block_all_signals() usage in DRM
On 26 May 2015 at 02:50, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> AAAAOn 05/25, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>
>> Is this functionality still in use/needed?
>
> All I can say it doesn't work.
>
>> Otherwise we could get rid of block_all_signals() and unpuzzle the signaling
>> code a bit. :-)
>
> Yes. I do not even remember when I reported this the first time. Perhaps
> more than 10 years ago.
>
> See the last attempt in 2011: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/263
> I copied this email below.
>
> Dave. Lets finally kill this horror? I am going to send a patch unless
> you stop me ;)
There were follow up on that thread 4 years ago, but we are probably
at the stage where this thing can die,
I suspect any hw using it has died out, and any new hardware won't be
doing evil things with drm locks
Dave.
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