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)
-- Steve