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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
Subject: Re: kernel_lock() profiling results
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:22:20 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14156.18924.10333.781178@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <374C3237.2D89878@colorfullife.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 26 May 1999 19:41:11 +0200, Manfred Spraul
<manfreds@colorfullife.com> said:

> 1) Andrea noticed that 'unlock_kernel()' only releases the kernel lock
> if the lock was obtained once.

Yes, but in all the places we are currently doing the copy_*_user, we
only hold the lock once.  In general we might want to do a true
save/restore of lock_depth for a new, self-unlocking copy_*_user, but
right now the droplock diffs still do the right thing the simple way.

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-05-26 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-23 14:30 Manfred Spraul
1999-05-26 16:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-26 17:41   ` Manfred Spraul
1999-05-26 19:22     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-05-29  0:45       ` Andrea Arcangeli

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