Re: BKL in tty code?

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:01:27 +0000

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:25:59PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> It has less to do with lock contention and much more to do with the
> design of the tty / console layer. It isn't the kernel's prettiest
> code.
>
> There is probably some cleanup that is possible, but really getting the
> thing in gear (which means no BKL, which is probably the hardest part to
> rip out) require some level of rewrite.

I've been thinking about the serial layer, and its far from trivial.
Unless its done right, we'll end up with a mess of locks -> deadlock.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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