Remaining BKL users, what to do

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Sep 16 07:49:09 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:32 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is
> the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users:

> kernel/trace/blktrace.c:
> 	Should be easy. Ingo? Steven?
> 

Jens,

Git blame shows this to be your code (copied from block/blktrace.c from
years past).

Is the lock_kernel() needed here? (although Arnd did add it in 62c2a7d9)

-- Steve




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