Re: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
>  
> > see what the BKL 
> 
> What does BKL stand for?

"big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel lock that these days 
is not actually used that much any more. When you see "lock_kernel()", 
"unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL.

		Linus
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