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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	james.bottomley@suse.de, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com,
	ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com,
	edmund.nadolski@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] isci: hardware / topology event handling
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:26:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110324062646.GA27051@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinYmRZe9HRrNFWMby9FXZNWCdRUb6QBMgRtW28E@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:07:49PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> One of the fixes I made in that interim timer api cleanup (8d32e5b2)
> was to use del_timer_sync on all pre-allocated timers to make sure
> nothing fired or was in the process of firing as the driver was
> brought down (unlikely).  The core runs under
> spin_lock_irqsave(ihost->scic_lock) context, and the expectation is
> that all these timeout callbacks are done in that context.

I'm afraid that you'll have to fix that design mistake first.  Running
large amounts of code under a spinlock just is not a good idea for
a wide range of reasons.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07  0:34 [RFC PATCH 0/6] isci: initial driver release (part1: intro and lldd) Dan Williams
2011-02-07  0:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] isci: initialization Dan Williams
2011-02-17  8:22   ` Jeff Garzik
2011-02-19  0:12     ` Dan Williams
2011-02-17  8:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-19  0:23     ` Dan Williams
2011-03-04 23:35   ` James Bottomley
2011-03-08  1:51     ` Dan Williams
2011-03-18 16:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-07  0:34 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] isci: task (libsas interface support) Dan Williams
2011-02-09 15:01   ` David Milburn
2011-02-14  7:14     ` Dan Williams
2011-02-16 18:48       ` David Milburn
2011-02-16 19:35         ` David Milburn
2011-02-07  0:34 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] isci: request (core request infrastructure) Dan Williams
2011-03-18 16:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-07  0:34 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] isci: hardware / topology event handling Dan Williams
2011-03-18 16:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-23  8:15     ` Dan Williams
2011-03-23  8:40       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-23  9:04         ` Dan Williams
2011-03-23  9:08           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-24  0:07             ` Dan Williams
2011-03-24  6:26               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-25  0:57                 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-25 19:45                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-25 21:39                     ` Dan Williams
2011-03-25 22:07                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-25 22:34                         ` Dan Williams
2011-03-27 22:28                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-29  1:11                             ` Dan Williams
2011-03-30  0:37                               ` Dan Williams
2011-02-07  0:35 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] isci: phy, port, and remote device Dan Williams
2011-02-07  0:35 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] isci: sata support and phy settings via request_firmware() Dan Williams
2011-02-07  7:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] isci: initialization jack_wang
2011-02-14  7:49   ` Dan Williams

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