Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 15:13:31 EST


> Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
> This patch turns that into a single allocation.

A naive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem:
is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for
example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?

- R.
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