Re: [RFC] annotating the remaining BKL users

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:20:57 -0700

> That said, I'd also like to see a comment _why_ the architectures in
> question depends on the BKL. Some of those look pretty historical (the
> sparc32 register window spill code? Does it _really_ need the BKL at
> all, or is that just a remnant of "let's get the BKL at each kernel
> entry").

It probably doesn't or can be trivially removed.

I'll have a go at this.
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