Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

[David Woodhouse]

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>  What is wrong with sleep_on()?

Are you asking me? If so, why did I not receive a copy in my inbox? If I 
want to filter duplicates locally, I can. I don't.

It's almost impossible to use it safely, and the few ways you _can_ use it
safely are frowned upon, because they mostly involve using the BKL, usage of
which is slowly being phased out in favour of finer-grained locking.

This kind of code is far too common:

 if (!event) {
        /* BUT WHAT IF THE EVENT ARRIVES _NOW_? */
        sleep_on(&event_wait);
 }

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dwmw2


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