Re: Full hostlock pushdown available

Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-10-28T22:48:02Z

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 23:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > To put this upstream, I need the single commit (with changelog and
> > signoff). Otherwise the series won't bisect. Murphys law says that if
> > I apply an unbisectable series like this, all the kernel bisections in
> > the next few months will end up in here, and I'll take a huge amount of
> > flack ...
>
> I expect even without the locking it should be safe enough for a bisect
> test. Not for production of course. And most drivers don't really
> need the lock anyways so they are safe in any case.
>
> An alternative would be to use a different lock around the call
> temporary during the series and drop it again at the end.
>

Mmmmmm, I don't really have an perference here. Unless we want to
agree to follow Boaz's recommendation from this morning:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=128826469826164&w=2

--nab