Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265037AbUFGTUK (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265010AbUFGTUJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:20:09 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:39375 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265008AbUFGTSO (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:18:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:18:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Phy Prabab cc: BlaisorBlade , Andrew Morton , Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6 In-Reply-To: <20040607191340.25304.qmail@web51803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040607191340.25304.qmail@web51803.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 18 On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote: > > > see what the BKL > > What does BKL stand for? "big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel lock that these days is not actually used that much any more. When you see "lock_kernel()", "unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/