Re: [OOPS] 2.6.11 - NMI lockup with CFQ scheduler

James Bottomley
2005-04-07T13:32:05Z

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:22 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Do we really need the sdev_lock pointer? There's just a single place
> where we're using it and the code would be much more clear if it had just
> one name.

Humour me for a while. I don't believe we have any way the lock can be
used after calling queue free, but nulling the sdev_lock pointer will
surely catch them. If nothing turns up after a few kernel revisions,
feel free to kill it.

James