Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269158AbUIRIAg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:00:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269160AbUIRIAd (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:00:33 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44487 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269158AbUIRIAa (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:00:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:02:14 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , William Lee Irwin III , Arjan van de Ven , Lee Revell Subject: Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real Message-ID: <20040918080214.GC31899@elte.hu> References: <20040915151815.GA30138@elte.hu> <20040917103945.GA19861@elte.hu> <20040917125334.GA4954@elte.hu> <20040917205639.GB15426@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040917205639.GB15426@dualathlon.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 18 * Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > [...] it still doesn't track the lock_kernel usage inside a spinlock, > [...] what do you mean? If something does lock_kernel() within spin_lock() then the might_sleep() check in down() catches it and will print a warning. (None of these warnings has triggered on any of my 3 systems yet, suggesting that the problem is not widespread. In any case it's very likely a _bug_ so we want to know!) Ingo - 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/