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tty: split the lock up a bit further
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:18:51 +0000 (13:18 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:18:08 +0000 (15:18 -0800)
commit36ba782e9674cdc29ec7003757df0b375e99fa96
treeb434105bf8a04b6b357b5063ce146169ab811bc1tree | snapshot
parent5ec93d1154fd1e269162398f8e70efc7e004485dcommit | diff
tty: split the lock up a bit further

The tty count sanity check may need the BKL, that isn't clear. However it
is clear that the count use of the lock is internal and independant of the
bigger use of the lock.

Furthermore the file list locking is also separately locked already

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/tty_io.c diff | blob | history
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