Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752755AbZLMSdr (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:33:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752594AbZLMSdp (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:33:45 -0500 Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:49442 "HELO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752561AbZLMSdn (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:33:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git From: Trond Myklebust To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20091213181726.GA14558@elte.hu> References: <20091212101032.GB25286@elte.hu> <20091212023603.93768833.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20091212214235.31429790@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091213065844.GA20244@elte.hu> <20091213181726.GA14558@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:33:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1260729195.2612.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.0 (2.28.0-2.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 8 msgs/h 1 sum rcpts/h 11 sum msgs/h 1 total rcpts 2014 max rcpts/h 27 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 462FB821AA8B784339963FA3F72CCA0F4122DCB3 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 68.40.206.115 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 1 total 38 max/h 3 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 21 On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 19:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > When we did the BKL-as-a-mutex trick and let lockdep loose on it, three areas > were particularly tricky: tty, reiser3 and NFS. tty and reiserfs should be ok > now, but i havent seen much activity on the NFS front. I've got a couple of NFS bkl removal patches queued up that I'll send on to Linus today, but they will not suffice to fully remove BKL from the NFS code. The main remaining problem area is that of file locking (i.e. anything that references inode->i_flock). I've started work on that, but a couple of higher interrupts have prevented me from pulling it all together in time for this merge window... Trond -- 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/