Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> The main remaining problem area is that of file locking (i.e. anything
> that references inode->i_flock). I've started work on that, but a couple
> of higher interrupts have prevented me from pulling it all together in
> time for this merge window...

I'm pretty sure we've had at least two trees with the file locking code 
fixed, but NFS in a status of "unknown".

If I recall correctly, the file locking code itself is not that hard: 
we've done it without the kernel lock in the past (long long ago), and the 
lock usage doesn't nest (or at least it didn't at some point back then ;). 
In fact, I think we even do the actual lock data structure allocations 
outside of the kernel lock exactly because we at one time had a patch that 
used a spinlock for protection of the lists.

(Again, not only my memory, but the code itself may have bitrotted in the 
meantime, of course).

		Linus
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