Re: [patch 1/3] Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:08:38 -0000
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> There is no need to hold tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call, when we
> pin the task structure with get_task_struct(). Interrupts are disabled in 
> setscheduler anyway and the permission checks do not need interrupts disabled.
> 

These three patches had intricate dependencies upon the __IP__ and
__IP_DECL__ gunk which later patches removed, so these patches do not
compile against the pi-futex patches.

So I dropped these.

And I'll drop the lockdep patches, so you'll be able to redo these.
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