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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, strakh@ispras.ru, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.32? 1/3] scsi_lib.c: avoid calling scsi_device_put() from under ->host_lock
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:26:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258504012.4113.24.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911172210.nAHMAAYJ014147@imap1.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 14:10 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Alexander Strakh <strakh@ispras.ru>
> 
> Driver scsi_lib.c might sleep in atomic context, because it calls
> scsi_device_put under spin_lock_irqsave.

I thought I already gave an explanation why this is the wrong
analysis ... sorry on a plane and can't look it up.

James



      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 22:10 [patch for 2.6.32? 1/3] scsi_lib.c: avoid calling scsi_device_put() from under ->host_lock akpm
2009-11-18  0:26 ` James Bottomley [this message]

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