On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Now I could probably come up with an annotation to hide it, but what do > other people think, Ingo, Linus, Andrew, do we want to keep kernel locks > held over userspace?
Definitely not a sane thing to do. It should use ref-counting and/or a single bit to say "busy". Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/