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From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:33:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040607193325.24606.qmail@web51808.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406071216060.1637@ppc970.osdl.org>

Thanks for the clarification.

Phy


--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
> >  
> > > see what the BKL 
> > 
> > What does BKL stand for?
> 
> "big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel
> lock that these days 
> is not actually used that much any more. When you
> see "lock_kernel()", 
> "unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL.
> 
> 		Linus
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-07 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-06 17:58 BlaisorBlade
2004-06-07 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-07 19:13   ` Phy Prabab
2004-06-07 19:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-07 19:33       ` Phy Prabab [this message]
2004-06-07 22:53   ` viro

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