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From: Orjan Friberg <of@flatfrog.com>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 oops when writing to two partitions simultaneously
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:07:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F215E0B.107@flatfrog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF7DA2700.9D726421-ONC1257991.004865DC-C1257991.0048F71D@transmode.se>

On 01/26/2012 02:16 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Anyhow, I think it is stupid (and probably buggy) to have kfree and kmalloc
> as separate. Why is it not done at the same time?

To me it looks like the lock must be held the entire time.  We can't 
allow two contexts using (i.e. freeing/allocating/writing to) the 
compressor's compr_buf.

Maybe the lock used here should be on a per-compressor basis, rather 
than on the list as a whole.  (The list lock is still needed when adding 
to/removing from the list of course.)

-- 
Orjan Friberg
FlatFrog Laboratories AB

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-24  9:55 JFFS2 oops when writing to two partitions simultaneously Orjan Friberg
2012-01-24 17:15 ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-24 19:02   ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-25 19:53     ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-25 21:01       ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26  8:19         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26  9:02           ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26  9:53             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26  9:02         ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26 11:53           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 12:51             ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26 13:16               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 14:07                 ` Orjan Friberg [this message]
2012-01-26 14:23                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 14:53                     ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26 15:17                       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 15:25                         ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26 16:05                           ` Orjan Friberg
2012-01-26 16:17                             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 14:52                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 15:09                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-01-26 15:18                       ` Orjan Friberg

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