Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:15:30 -0400 | From | Rui Sousa <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > OK, folks - current bunch of changes looks rather interesting from > the scalability point of view, but it means changes in 3rd-party code. > Doing it during the 2.4 is obviously not an option and postponing to > 2.5 looks like an overkill since changes are massive but very simple. > [snipped]
Hi,
The changes you made to some of the sound drivers seem to imply it's possible to enter release()/mmap() before open() returns, is this right?
If so what prevents release() from grabbing the BKL first? Do the drivers now need to check the validity of file->private_data before using it?
Rui Sousa
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