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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:35:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914183502.GA23277@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095186343.2008.29.camel@mulgrave>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:25:35PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> Sleeping in the eh paths is fine (as long as you drop the locks that the
> EH thread has uselessly taken for you).  Indeed it's often required
> since the return is supposed to tell the eh thread whether the action
> was successful or not.

I'm not sure this true for all arches?

The lock is taken in the SCSI layer with spin_lock_irqsave(), but the
low-level driver cannot perform the exact opposite,
spin_unlock_irqrestore().  The best they can do is spin_lock_irq(),
which isnt 100% the same.

	Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <41471163.10709@rtr.ca>
2004-09-14 17:00 ` [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2 Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 17:27   ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 17:33     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 17:51   ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 17:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:03       ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 18:07         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:08         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 18:25   ` James Bottomley
2004-09-14 18:35     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-09-14 18:51       ` James Bottomley
2004-09-15  2:39     ` Mark Lord
2004-09-15  2:47       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 12:35         ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:43 Mark Lord
2004-09-14 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 16:23   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 16:39   ` Nathan Bryant
2004-09-14 17:02     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15  4:22   ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-09-15  4:30     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 12:47     ` Mark Lord
2004-09-15 12:55       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-15 13:13         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-15 16:14           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15  7:02 ` Christoph Hellwig

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