Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  It would be sweet to have them use private mutexes for the job 
> > instead (although even then it probably wouldn't be a straight 
> > conversion)...
> 
> I tried a quick conversion of reiser3 at the time, but it really wants 
> a recursive lock and I couldn't be bothered to fix a 'legacy' 
> filesystem so I just gave up and converted the filesystem to XFS.

as long as the only requirement is recursion, and not any of the other 
BKL properties, that could be wrapped. I guess fixing the TTY code to 
have no BKL dependencies has a higher chance of success - given that 
Alan is working on it :-)

	Ingo
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