Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: + big-kernel-lock-contention-in-do_open-and-blkdev_put.patch added to -mm tree | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:14:51 +0200 |
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> Out of the 63 hits I see in 2.6.17-rc4 with > block_device_operations->open(), floppy driver seems to be the only one > that mucks around with a global Variable without any protection. We can > add a spin lock there. > rg> > --- > > fs/block_dev.c | 6 ------ > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
the fix to floppy.c is missing!
(also I highly question the validity of this patch, last time the BKL got dropped from open quite a few rootholes got opened... )
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