Hi,
I'm wondering if someone can give me some explanations on why putting
lock_kernel() around fput() in
binfmt_elf.c (and maybe somewhere else) in 2.3.99-pre5. It seems like
whatever needs to be protected are already done within
fput() function itself. I don't see why lock_kernel() is needed. Also, by
making d_count atomic, it seems like one can get rid of
lock kernel calls around all the dget()'s, if not anything else. Is this
right?
Ying
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