From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: "linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: remove global lock around address handlers, convert to RCU
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:05:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348851928.2229.3.camel@thor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927214436.1da8b8ef@stein>
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 15:44 -0400, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:50:02 -0400
> From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
>
> Upper-layer handlers for inbound requests were called with a spinlock
> held by firewire-core. Calling into upper layers with a lower layer
> lock held is generally a bad idea.
[... snip ...]
>
> (Changelog rewritten by Stefan R.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> ---
> Peter, are you OK with the new changelog?
Yes, that's ok with me.
Peter Hurley
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2012-09-27 19:44 ` [PATCH] firewire: remove global lock around address handlers, convert to RCU Stefan Richter
2012-09-27 19:46 ` [PATCH] firewire: addendum to address handler RCU conversion Stefan Richter
2012-09-28 9:38 ` [PATCH] firewire: remove global lock around address handlers, convert to RCU Stefan Richter
2012-09-28 17:03 ` Peter Hurley
2012-09-28 17:05 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
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