Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759628AbXFVWyw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:54:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751266AbXFVWyo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:54:44 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46538 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751258AbXFVWyn (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:54:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:57:03 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Roland Dreier Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Hellwig , john stultz , Oleg Nesterov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , "David S. Miller" , matthew.wilcox@hp.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Message-ID: <20070622235703.28ded4b2@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070622040014.234651401@goodmis.org> <20070622204058.GA11777@elte.hu> <20070622215953.GA22917@elte.hu> <20070622220901.GA26207@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 15 > As a second example, msr_seek() in arch/i386/kernel/msr.c... is the > inode semaphore enough or not? Who understands the implications well > enough to say? lseek is one of the nasty remaining cases. tty is another real horror that needs further work but we slowly get closer - drivers/char is almost but not entirely lock_kernel free now and several users look quite easy to swat (everyone but tty_io.c) Alan - 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/