Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty
> > > straightforwad.  But it's really really sad.  It basically leaves a great
> > > big FIXME in there.  It'd be better to fix it.
> > 
> > 
> > Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times.
> > 
> > Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and
> > if it shows problems later on we can revisit it.
> 
> The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg.
> 

Where is this patch??
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