Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:47:37AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> as the BKL is acquired before spinlocks in all instances. There are

that reinforces my argument, that's another case that can break with
this patch.

I don't think it has a chance to fix any bug, if something it will
trigger some deadlock or race condition, but OTOH I agree it should work
fine (all code I can recall by memory takes the BKL before any inner
spinlock too, and I don't think we left anything that depends on
smp_processor_id()), but again this is the kind of change that requires
some testing and cannot be shipped by default in a stable tree, it
requires config option at the very least.
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