From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty races
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:25:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050503182554.02af99e8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505032101540.22921@dhcp83-105.boston.redhat.com>
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The patch I proposed fixes the open vs. open race using the tty_sem. The
> open vs. close race is closed by removing locking. Less locking seems
> better to me.
But the additional locking is only temporary. Once we thing the tty_sem
converage is complete, the lock_kernel()s get removed.
> If you're still not happy, I'll wrap the close path in the tty_sem...
Would be appreciated, please.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-04 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 16:44 Jason Baron
2005-04-26 6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-26 13:52 ` Jason Baron
2005-05-03 6:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-03 13:33 ` Jason Baron
2005-05-04 0:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-04 1:13 ` Jason Baron
2005-05-04 1:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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