From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:27:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109978827.5680.324.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050304231807.GC2647@elf.ucw.cz>
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 00:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On So 05-03-05 10:03:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > > What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing
> > > mdelay() between hardware accesses?
> >
> > Almost all drivers that I know have some sort of locking. Nothing nasty
> > about it. Besides, you can't expect everything to be as simple as
> > putting two bit of lego together, the problem isn't simple.
>
> If error() is allowed to sleep, then yes, its probably easy enough. If
> it is not allowed to sleep, it will just postpone work to context that
> is allowed to sleep, and it will probably be okay, too.
Yes, it's my itend that the notification callback is to be called in a
task context where it can sleep.
> => there are some locking issues, but they are probably easy
> enough. Sorry for noise.
> Pavel
>
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-05 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 8:33 [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 19:27 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02 6:13 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 19:20 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-04 2:03 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 16:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 16:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 16:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 17:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 18:33 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 20:02 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 23:37 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 3:13 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 17:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-04 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 22:57 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 23:18 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-02 2:28 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 17:44 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:03 ` linux-os
2005-03-02 22:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 2:21 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 18:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 19:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 22:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 23:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 23:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 19:17 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 17:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 18:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:59 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 12:40 ` Hidetoshi Seto
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