Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 01 May 2002 08:06:35 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] May 1, 2002 (BKL status) |
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Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > There has also been a lot of work done by various people to > remove the BKL from many places, which leads to my question: > does anyone has a URL with a list of all the places where the > BKL should eventually be removed and who's working on it? > > It seems like it would be most useful if someone was willing > to maintain something like this, but it might be a lot of > work - I don't know how long the list would be...
I may not be the leading BKL expert, but I play one on TV :)
Perhaps one of the kernel-janitor people would like to assist me with this (cc'ing that list). I'd be willing to keep a web page to list all current BKL uses and keep track of them as they are removed/added Perhaps a set of web pages which resemble the directory structure of the kernel tree would be helpful??
Here's a good question for kernel-janitor, and anyone else who's interested, what format describing BKL use would most encourage you to go and remove it? We already have Rick Lindsley's Global spinlock list: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lse/locking_doc-2.4.16 . The BKL use in there is somewhat dated, but might be a good start.
I have some awk scripts that I use on each new kernel release to check for new and removed uses of the BKL. I can adapt these to start checking new BK changesets for BKL changes.
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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