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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, jdike@addtoit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml:fix ubd deadlock on SMP
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:32:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909113228.M1973@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409092002.19134.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>; from blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it on Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:02:19PM +0200

* BlaisorBlade (blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it) wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 20:12, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it (blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it) wrote:
> > > Trivial: don't lock the queue spinlock when called from the request
> > > function. Since the faulty function must use spinlock in another case,
> > > double-case it. And since we will never use both functions together, let
> > > no object code be shared between them.
> >
> > Why not add a helper which locks around the core function.  Then either
> > call helper or core function directly depending on locking needs?
> I'm happy with whatever is nicer.

The way I outlined is nicer as it avoids all that conditional locking.
I can do a full patch if you like.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-08 17:25 [patch 1/1] uml:fix ubd deadlock on SMP blaisorblade_spam
2004-09-08 18:12 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-09 18:02   ` [uml-devel] " BlaisorBlade
2004-09-09 18:32     ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-09-09 18:44       ` BlaisorBlade
2004-09-09 19:29         ` Chris Wright
2004-09-10 19:01           ` BlaisorBlade
2004-09-09  7:35 ` Jens Axboe

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