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SubjectRe: BKL removal
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:31:13PM -0700, Rick Lindsley wrote:
> Unless a developer is relying on the release-on-sleep mechanism or the
> nested-locks-without-deadlock mechanism, there's no reason an instance
> of the BKL can't be replaced with another spinlock.

Um, not true. You can call schedule with the BKL held, not true for a
spinlock.

And see the oft repeated messages on lkml about the spinlock/semaphore
hell that some oses have turned into when they try to do this. Let's
learn from history this time around please.

greg k-h
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