From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:15:18 +1000
> Sure, the process has /dev/lguest open, so I can do something in the > close routine. Instead of keeping a reference to the tsk, I can keep a > reference to the struct lguest (currently it doesn't have or need a > refcnt). Then I need another lock, to protect lg->tsk. > > This seems like a lot of dancing to avoid one export. If it's that > important I'd far rather drop the code and do a normal wakeup under the > big lguest lock for 2.6.23. I'm not against the export, so use if it really helps. Ref-counting just seems clumsy to me given how the hw assisted virtualization stuff works on platforms I am intimately familiar with :) - 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/
