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    SubjectRe: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock
    On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:11:03PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
    > Hi Arnd,
    >
    > Looking at your tree, I see you have commit 753dd249 ("perf_event: use
    > nonseekable_open") that does:
    >
    > > --- a/kernel/perf_event.c
    > > +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
    > > @@ -2515,6 +2515,8 @@ static int perf_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on)
    > > }
    > >
    > > static const struct file_operations perf_fops = {
    > > + .open = nonseekable_open,
    > > + .llseek = no_llseek,
    > > .release = perf_release,
    > > .read = perf_read,
    > > .poll = perf_poll,
    >
    > But if I understand this correctly, the assignment to .open is at best
    > useless -- these file_operations are only used via anon_inode_getfd()
    > and so there is no possible path that can call the .open method. Or am
    > I missing something?
    >
    > (The same applies to the kvm_main.c changes too)


    Good point, I'll update that.

    Thanks.



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