Re: [PATCH 1/6 RFC] arch/blackfin/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL from sys_execve

From: John Kacur
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 04:30:14 EST




On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 18:33, John Kacur wrote:
> > This looks like a cut-and-paste job.
> > For example, compare this function to sys_execve in
> > arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> >
> > and it is almost line by line the same, except the one in x86 nolonger has the
> > big kernel lock. All of the functions called between the lock are generic
> > and not specific to blackfin - thus, I believe it is safe to remove the
> > bkl here.
>
> and it still boots/runs fine, so np here
> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -mike

Cool - are you testing on one of those nifty smp (or smp-like) blackfins?
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