Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 09:36:40 EST


[trimming Cc list]

On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I think we also need to cover the PREEMPT case too. But that could be a
> compile time check, since you can't boot a preempt kernel and make it
> non preempt.

Right. Can we turn the lock_kernel() into preempt_disable() in these
drivers when we know we never run on SMP?

Arnd
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