From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: + big-kernel-lock-contention-in-do_open-and-blkdev_put.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:14:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149149691.3115.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606010025.k510PPi3013738@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
> Out of the 63 hits I see in 2.6.17-rc4 with
> block_device_operations->open(), floppy driver seems to be the only one
> that mucks around with a global Variable without any protection. We can
> add a spin lock there.
> rg>
> ---
>
> fs/block_dev.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
the fix to floppy.c is missing!
(also I highly question the validity of this patch, last time the BKL
got dropped from open quite a few rootholes got opened... )
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2006-06-01 8:14 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-01 18:19 ` + big-kernel-lock-contention-in-do_open-and-blkdev_put.patchadded " Chen, Kenneth W
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