Re: [patch] sched, tty: fix scheduling latencies in tty_io.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 13:00, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Would it not be better to fix the tty layer locking rather than
> > > introduces new random memory corruptors ?
> > 
> > sure ... any volunteers?
> 
> Not that I've seen. I'm fixing some locking but not stuff that depends
> on lock_kernel(). [...]

would it be a sufficient fix to grab some sort of tty_sem mutex in the
places where the patch drops the BKL - or are there other entry paths to
this code?

	Ingo
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