* Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /proc/sys part of sysctl code runs without BKL held, so BKL during
> sysctl(2) is useless. Remove misleading comment and "protection"
> around coredumping code -- kernel.core_pattern can be written without
> BKL.
>
> do_sysctl() and lookup in /proc/sys use identical iterators, so any
> locking bug BKL supposedly fixed in sysctl(2) code we should have in
> /proc/sys code anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cool! You just shortened the grand 10-year-plan of BKL removal by at
least one year :-)
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ingo
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