On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > The patch below does this to fs/open.c:sys_vhangup()
>
> > c) reduces the length of holding big kernel lock
>
> > - lock_kernel();
>
> > - unlock_kernel();
>
> Er.. removes the BKL completely. I suspect you didn't mean
> to do that.
>
I did mean it. Look all the way down the call stack and observe the BKL
(thanks for the new abbreviation) taken at do_tty_hangup() level. In fact
I mentioned that function as a hint that one should look there :)
Regards,
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Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
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