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Alexander Viro wrote: > Could the person who switched from BKL to spin_lock_irqsave() in > pc_keyb.c please share whatever the hell he had been smoking? Free clue: > disabling interrupts for long intervals to improve scalability is right up > there with fighting for peace and fucking for virginity. As I slowly raise my hand to take, um credit.... This is definitely one of the drivers I to take a second look at, now that I know about the BKL being held for block and char device opens. Do you have any ideas how else to do this safely since aux_count is referenced during an interrupt? -- Dave Hansen dave@sr71.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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