On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 13:04, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>> Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > The cache flush code only locks against itself, so there
>> > is no excuse to use the BKL here. This replaces it with
>> > a local mutex in order to maintain serialization of flushes.
>>
>> I don't think this needs a lock at all.
>
> Quite likely, I just took the most conservative approach.
> If you want to queue a patch to drop the BKL from m68k, I'll
> happily drop this one from my series.
I'm dropping the locking completely. Patch will follow.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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