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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se
Cc: "Dave Ellis" <DGE@sixnetio.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Disk blocks for long periods
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:51:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31147.1028713904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IGEFJKJNHJDCBKALBJLLAEIIFFAA.joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se>

joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se said:
>  Can the JFFS2 layer also use spin_lock() instead of spin_lock_bh()?
> Shold we try not to disable bottom-halves or does it not matter?

Well, the MTD API documentation (in my head) says that the erase completion 
callback may be called in bottom-half context (i.e. from a timer), which is 
why JFFS2 uses spin_lock_bh(). 

I suppose we could change that.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-07  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-05 18:50 Disk blocks for long periods Dave Ellis
2002-08-06 10:06 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-06 12:14   ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-06 13:52     ` Jörn Engel
2002-08-06 13:53       ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-06 16:45     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-07  9:51       ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-08-08  7:23         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-08  8:02           ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-08  8:32             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-08  8:40               ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-07 16:42 Dave Ellis
2002-08-08  7:08 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-08  8:08   ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-08  9:15     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-08  9:18       ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-06 20:16 Dave Ellis
2002-08-06 21:06 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-06 14:53 Dave Ellis
2002-08-06 15:09 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-07 11:11 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 10:35 MTD Partition problems David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 13:35 ` Disk blocks for long periods Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-05 13:44   ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 13:59     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-05 14:12       ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 14:32         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-05 14:42           ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 21:45             ` Jasmine Strong

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