netdev - Re: [PATCH] X25: Replace BKL in sockopts calls

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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 04:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	andrew.hendry@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X25: Replace BKL in sockopts calls

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 06:50:40 +0200

> Well, its probably better than lock_kernel() ;)
> 
> qbitincl is a char, I suspect some arches cant store a char in an atomic
> way ? Alpha comes to mind.

True.

> We now have lock_sock_bh()/unlock_sock_bh() for this kind of very short
> sections, where we cant sleep.

Another option is to simply use an atomic bitmask to represent these
booleans instead of a crufty set of chars.
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