Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751303Ab0DJPNw (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:13:52 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:42503 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744Ab0DJPNv (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:13:51 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:13:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock To: Arnd Bergmann cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <201003271537.40488.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: References: <201003242240.54907.arnd@arndb.de> <201003251438.59062.arnd@arndb.de> <4BAD4795.2040700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <201003271537.40488.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 28 On 27 Mar, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:47:33 Stefan Richter wrote: >> firewire-core and raw1394 do not actually require the BKL, they only >> miss to declare their files as not seekable. I will post patches which >> change these accordingly. > > Your patches look good, but it would be helpful to also set .llseek = no_llseek > in the file operations, because that is much easier to grep for than > only the nonseekable_open. While it's technically a NOP on the presence of > nonseekable_open, it will help that I don't accidentally apply my patch on > top of yours. I pushed modified versions of these patches out to linux1394-2.6.git now (master and for-next branch, on top of unrelated firewire updates). They contain the explicit .llseek = no_llseek now. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ac26b2ee30005930117fe6a180c139c5f300faf http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7cfe21aae155c26193fde617dc61d37a79a63f86 -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/