From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
sekharan@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid calling down_read and down_write during startup
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:37:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060223223729.GE30329@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0602231728300.4579-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:36:56PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as660) changes the registration and unregistration routines
> for blocking notifier chains. During system startup, when task switching
> is illegal, the routines will avoid calling down_write().
Why is that necessary? The down_write() will immediately succeed as no
other process can possibly be holding the lock when the system is booting,
so the special casing doesn't fix anything.
-ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 15:54 [PATCH] Register atomic_notifiers in atomic context Alan Stern
2006-02-21 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 16:08 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-22 16:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-23 2:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-23 17:15 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-23 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-23 22:28 ` [PATCH] The idle notifier chain should be atomic Alan Stern
2006-02-23 23:49 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 3:24 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 3:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 4:04 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-23 22:36 ` [PATCH] Avoid calling down_read and down_write during startup Alan Stern
2006-02-23 22:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-02-24 0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24 3:18 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 14:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-24 15:04 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 15:15 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-24 16:44 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 16:44 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-24 17:59 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 18:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-24 20:21 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-24 14:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-24 15:03 ` Alan Stern
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