Re: global kernel lock

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:29:50 +0000

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 02:08:25AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
> - - does anyone have removing this on their ToDo for 2.3?

I noticed things like lock_kernel() in munmap for example, and in the
page fault handler of some architectures (but not i386). Given the
semaphores and so there do seem to be more lock_kernel()s than I'd expect.

-- Jamie

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