From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:03:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820070355.A16988@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n00qics0.fsf@telia.com>; from petero2@telia.com on Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 07:44:47AM +0200
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 07:44:47AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> The release/ioctl functions should be no problems to convert, but how
> do I prevent pkt_open() and pkt_remove_dev() from racing against each
> other with your suggestion? Currently this is handled by the ctl_mutex
> and the fact that pkt_find_dev_from_minor() returns NULL if the packet
> device has gone away.
If you call del_gendisk early enough the blocklayer will synchrnoize
them for you. It looks like you'll have to move del_gendisk a little up
for that, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-16 21:37 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 21:47 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-17 13:20 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Frediano Ziglio
2004-08-18 23:57 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-19 9:45 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-20 5:44 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-20 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-16 22:30 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:51 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Alan Cox
2004-08-16 23:25 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2004-08-16 23:39 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-17 1:32 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 6:59 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-17 6:25 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-17 6:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 7:00 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 7:05 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:07 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:09 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 3:19 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 3:41 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 4:16 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-08-17 14:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-17 5:59 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 7:19 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Rusty Russell
2004-08-17 8:45 ` [patch] new-task-fix.patch, 2.6.8.1-mm1 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-17 11:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-17 11:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-08-17 17:53 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-18 1:04 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Rusty Russell
2004-08-18 17:36 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 6:20 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 6:40 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 sam
2004-08-17 7:05 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Nathan Lynch
2004-08-17 13:39 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-17 12:54 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 14:15 ` 2.6.8.1-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 21:59 ` ldchk -> arch/arm/Makefile? [Was: 2.6.8.1-mm1] Sam Ravnborg
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