Alan Cox wrote:
Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 18:08 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl:
What about adjusting things so the BKL isn't required? I tried
completely removing it and died in release_dev. tty_mutex is already
locks a lot of stuff, maybe it can be adjusted to allow removal of the
BKL.
Thats what is happening currently. However it is being done piece by
piece, slowly and carefully.
I hate to chime in since I don't have time in the near term
to contribute to the subject, but I do like the idea of removing
the BKL dependence as a first step. I find its semantics akward to keep
track of, and error prone. More explicit locking, even global, would clear things
up for a later push to finer grained (per tty?) locking (where appropriate).
Making the necessary changes to all the individual drivers,
as Russel's comment about explicitly dropping the new lock when
sleeping pointed out, would be a time consuming (and probably
tedious) task.
--
Paul
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