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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "[JFFS2] Reduce time for which erase_free_sem
	is held during erase."
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:00:05 -0400
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:26 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> This patch locks up the system because it takes the 'erase_free_sem'
> in the erase callback function, which is in turn called from
> NAND/OneNAND driver with NAND/OneNAND chip locked.

I think the real bug is the drivers calling the callback with their own
locks held, surely?

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dwmw2