From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: Introduce a slave mutex for serializing IO.
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 01:27:06 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120503212706.GA26612@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120504070838.5bd23110@notabene.brown>
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:08:38AM +1000, NeilBrown (neilb@suse.de) wrote:
> You can only check the owner on SMP builds, or when debugging is enabled.
> So I don't think that approach can work.
You can store owner in master device and protect with mutex itself.
On non-smp systems it can not be preempted, so can be checked without
mutex.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-03 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 2:49 [PATCH] w1: Introduce a slave mutex for serializing IO NeilBrown
2012-05-01 21:39 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2012-05-02 6:26 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-03 17:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2012-05-03 21:08 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-03 21:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2012-05-09 1:43 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-15 1:26 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2012-05-18 6:05 ` NeilBrown
2012-06-10 20:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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