05 Mar, 2011
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This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the
IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this
is safe to do, because there is no global state
that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does
not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely
while holding it.Compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
21 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a
few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even
there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do
about them, this patch illustrates one of the options:Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets
disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL
code itself is compiled out.The one exception is file locking, which is practically always
enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces
CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd
mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann