Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:35:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: BUG: lock held when returning to user space |
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Now I could probably come up with an annotation to hide it, but what do > other people think, Ingo, Linus, Andrew, do we want to keep kernel locks > held over userspace?
Definitely not a sane thing to do. It should use ref-counting and/or a single bit to say "busy".
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