Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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On 2010-09-16 16:49, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:32 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is
>> the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users:
> 
>> kernel/trace/blktrace.c:
>> 	Should be easy. Ingo? Steven?
>>
> 
> Jens,
> 
> Git blame shows this to be your code (copied from block/blktrace.c from
> years past).
> 
> Is the lock_kernel() needed here? (although Arnd did add it in 62c2a7d9)

It isn't, it can be removed.

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Jens Axboe


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