From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sg MiB writes scheduling while atomic
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:58:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916135843.A15918@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916114238.GA21596@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:42:38PM +0100
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:42:38PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> scsi_device_put() calls down_write() so it needs to be called in process
> context. Probably the best way to do this is by calling schedule_work().
> An ickier solution would be to hijack an error handling thread ;-)
The down_write was recently introduced and also hurts my scsi_device
refcounting patches badly. I'll submit a patch make scsi_device_{get,put}
nonblocking again ASAP.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-16 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-09-10 16:23 ` [linux-usb-devel] [2.6-test] Bug in usb-storage or scsi? Alan Stern
2003-09-10 18:16 ` [usb-storage] " Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 18:49 ` sg MiB writes scheduling while atomic Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 19:30 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-16 6:35 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-09-16 11:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-16 12:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-10-14 23:36 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 20:08 ` [PATCH] mount -w of dvd+rw etc. in vanilla 2.6 Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 22:49 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-09-22 14:52 ` max GiB written per boot Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 20:51 ` unsolicited sense in 2.6.0-test5 usb-storage.ko Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 21:03 ` [usb-storage] " Alan Stern
2003-09-10 21:24 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-10 21:52 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-09-10 22:08 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 0:21 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 0:29 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-16 11:28 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-09-11 0:02 ` [linux-usb-devel] [2.6-test] Bug in usb-storage or scsi? Patrick Mansfield
2003-09-11 20:04 ` [usb-storage] " Pat LaVarre
2003-09-11 20:05 ` Alan Stern
2003-09-11 20:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-09-12 21:17 ` Alan Stern
2003-09-11 20:42 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 19:59 ` Alan Stern
2003-09-12 19:18 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 18:43 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-12 20:56 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-09-12 21:53 ` Pat LaVarre
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