Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:52:25 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove BKL from sysctl(2) |
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* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> /proc/sys part of sysctl code runs without BKL held, so BKL during > sysctl(2) is useless. Remove misleading comment and "protection" > around coredumping code -- kernel.core_pattern can be written without > BKL. > > do_sysctl() and lookup in /proc/sys use identical iterators, so any > locking bug BKL supposedly fixed in sysctl(2) code we should have in > /proc/sys code anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
cool! You just shortened the grand 10-year-plan of BKL removal by at least one year :-)
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo
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