From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
agk@redhat.com, linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: [RFC] Reverting "bd_mount_mutex" to "bd_mount_sem"
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:57:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927135705.GA30311@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451A78DF.1060901@in.ibm.com>
* Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On debugging I found out that,"dmsetup suspend <device name>" calls
> "freeze_bdev()",which locks "bd_mount_mutex" to make sure that no new
> mounts happen on bdev until thaw_bdev() is called.
> This "thaw_bdev()" is getting called when we resume the device
> through "dmsetup resume <device-name>".
> Hence we have 2 processes,one of which locks
> "bd_mount_mutex"(dmsetup suspend) and Another(dmsetup resume) unlocks
> it.
hm, to me this seems quite a fragile construct - even if the
mutex-debugging warning is worked around by reverting to a semaphore.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 13:13 [linux-lvm] [RFC] Reverting "bd_mount_mutex" to "bd_mount_sem" Srinivasa Ds
2006-09-27 13:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-10-06 20:50 ` [linux-lvm] " Eric Sandeen
2006-10-10 15:04 ` Srinivasa Ds
2006-10-10 15:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-23 8:39 ` Roger Lucas
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