Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:19:09 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
       Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, trem <tremyfr@yahoo.fr>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> >  It would be sweet to have them use private mutexes for the job 
> > instead (although even then it probably wouldn't be a straight 
> > conversion)...
> 
> I tried a quick conversion of reiser3 at the time, but it really wants 
> a recursive lock and I couldn't be bothered to fix a 'legacy' 
> filesystem so I just gave up and converted the filesystem to XFS.

as long as the only requirement is recursion, and not any of the other 
BKL properties, that could be wrapped. I guess fixing the TTY code to 
have no BKL dependencies has a higher chance of success - given that 
Alan is working on it :-)

	Ingo
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