> OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it.
Also it might be that it's even worse than the BKL. > > We don't have a handy lock in struct file which could be borrowed. > > - We could add one > > - We could borrow file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_lock > > - We could convert that field to long and use bitops (sounds nice?) It would still require a bitlock because some state in the low level fasync needs to be protected. Oleg has a proposal to do this using a flag bit which seemed reasonable to me. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
