Re: [PATCH] Fix to make check_pgt_cache work on !i386 architectures

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:12:54 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote:
>
> Ummm, but isn't allocation from the pgt cache *always* protected by the
> holding of the global kernel lock?

If it is now, it won't be in the future.. So I certainly would not be
happy to add more code that depended on the big lock, I'd like to make it
less.

We should be able to already do most of the mm layer without the kernel
lock, but it's not going to be done before 2.2.x.

Linus

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