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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] aacraid: unlock around kfree
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:06:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123110393.5019.53.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123108776.24945.40.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:39 -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> kfree has the possibility of sleeping. It is generally considered poor
> manners to hold on to a lock with the possibility of a system call
> induced sleep.

Erm, this isn't true ... we'd have no end of driver issues if kfree
could block.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-03 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-03 22:39 [PATCH 6/7] aacraid: unlock around kfree Mark Haverkamp
2005-08-03 23:06 ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-04 11:33 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-08-04 11:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-04 12:04 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-08-04 12:34 ` Arjan van de Ven

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