From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:18:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304231807.GC2647@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109977417.5611.318.camel@gaston>
On So 05-03-05 10:03:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing
> > mdelay() between hardware accesses?
>
> Almost all drivers that I know have some sort of locking. Nothing nasty
> about it. Besides, you can't expect everything to be as simple as
> putting two bit of lego together, the problem isn't simple.
If error() is allowed to sleep, then yes, its probably easy enough. If
it is not allowed to sleep, it will just postpone work to context that
is allowed to sleep, and it will probably be okay, too.
=> there are some locking issues, but they are probably easy
enough. Sorry for noise.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-05 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 8:33 [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 19:27 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02 6:13 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 19:20 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-04 2:03 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 16:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 16:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 16:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 17:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 18:33 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 20:02 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 23:37 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 3:13 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 17:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-04 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 22:57 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 23:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-03-04 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 2:28 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 17:44 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:03 ` linux-os
2005-03-02 22:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 2:21 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 18:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 19:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 22:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 23:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 23:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 19:17 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 17:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 18:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:59 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 12:40 ` Hidetoshi Seto
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