From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761767AbZEGLCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 07:02:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753706AbZEGLCe (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 07:02:34 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:51299 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754036AbZEGLCd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 07:02:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:02:10 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Neil Brown Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani , Jonathan Corbet , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] md: Avoid to call flush_scheduled_work() with BKL held Message-ID: <20090507110210.GD28398@elte.hu> References: <1240492313-6560-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it> <20090426163841.GC6236@elte.hu> <18946.28620.916415.205482@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18946.28620.916415.205482@notabene.brown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Neil Brown wrote: > On Sunday April 26, mingo@elte.hu wrote: > > > > Hm, couldnt we switch the ioctl in drivers/md/md.c from > > ->locked_ioctl to ->unlocked_ioctl? > > > > Neil, what do you think? > > Yes, definitely. Though it is just 'ioctl', not 'unlocked_ioctl'. > > I'll queue a patch for 2.6.31. thanks! Ingo