Re: [PATCH 07/18] m68k: remove big kernel lock

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On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

The cache flush code only locks against itself, so there
is no excuse to use the BKL here. This replaces it with
a local mutex in order to maintain serialization of flushes.

I don't think this needs a lock at all.


Quite likely, I just took the most conservative approach.
If you want to queue a patch to drop the BKL from m68k, I'll
happily drop this one from my series.

	Arnd
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