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From: Iwo Mergler <iwo@call-direct.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Subject: Fix for genalloc locking
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:43:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F83400.90901@call-direct.com.au> (raw)

Hi,

I hit a little problem while using genalloc with a mix
of interrupt/non-interrupt context. I believe the correct
fix is to replace the locking calls with the _irqsave/_irqrestore
variants. Patch follows.

Is this correct?

BTW, is there any documentation on the Lockdep warnings?
What exactly is the meaning of {--+.} in 

(&pool->lock){--+.}, at: [<c0125d1c>] gen_pool_free+0x34/0x120


Kind regards,

Iwo


             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17  6:43 Iwo Mergler [this message]
2008-10-17  6:46 ` [PATCH] Fix for genalloc locking Iwo Mergler
2008-10-21 15:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-21 22:20   ` Iwo Mergler

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