Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
 >  > Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
 >  > This patch turns that into a single allocation.
 > 
 > A naive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem:
 > is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for
 > example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?

It's all called under the console_sem iirc.

		Dave

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