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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:30:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112880658.5842.10.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050407132205.GA16517@infradead.org>

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:22 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Do we really need the sdev_lock pointer?  There's just a single place
> where we're using it and the code would be much more clear if it had just
> one name.

Humour me for a while.  I don't believe we have any way the lock can be
used after calling queue free, but nulling the sdev_lock pointer will
surely catch them.  If nothing turns up after a few kernel revisions,
feel free to kill it.

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 11:54 [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler Chris Rankin
2005-03-29 12:03 ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 16:27   ` James Bottomley
2005-04-06 17:58     ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 18:20       ` James Bottomley
2005-04-06 19:08         ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 21:09           ` James Bottomley
2005-04-07  6:49             ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-07 13:18               ` James Bottomley
2005-04-07 13:22                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-07 13:24                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-07 13:30                   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-04-07 13:32                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-07 13:39                       ` James Bottomley
2005-04-07 14:45                         ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-08 13:04                           ` James Bottomley
2005-04-08 13:09                             ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-07 13:24                 ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-29 12:22 Chris Rankin
2005-03-29 12:26 ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 12:31   ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 12:52     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-06 12:55       ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 13:38         ` Tejun Heo
2005-04-06 18:01           ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-06 20:32           ` Mike Anderson
2005-03-27 19:22 Chris Rankin
2005-03-29 11:32 ` Jens Axboe

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