From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: hch@ns.caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Cc: alan@redhat.com, t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] es1371 race fixes
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:58:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106021558.f52FwCP17498@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010602165659.A12811@caldera.de> from "Christoph Hellwig" at Jun 02, 2001 04:56:59 PM
> o es1371_mmap used to use lock_kernel to do some synchronistation,
> this is superceeded by s->sem.
> o remap_page_range (used in es1371_mmap) needs the mm semaphore as
> stated by a comment and the code. I have found _NO_ driver in the
> tree so far that does this locking right...
I think they rely on the lock_kernel stuff - which Id prefer not to take out
to be honest. There is just a little too much vm related lock_kernel stuff
left to do that
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2001-06-02 14:56 [PATCH] es1371 race fixes Christoph Hellwig
2001-06-02 15:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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