From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/st: remove BKL from open
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:18:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100430021855.GA21078@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004152251.39636.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The st_open function is serialized through the st_dev_arr_lock
> and the STp->in_use flag, so there is no race that the BKL
> can protect against in the driver itself, and the function
> does not access any global state outside of the driver that
> might be protected with the BKL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
Kai, can we get your ack on this?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-30 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 20:36 [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] block: replace BKL with global mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-14 20:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] Remove BKL from fs/locks.c Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-14 20:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-04-14 21:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-04-15 20:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-15 4:14 ` Brad Boyer
2010-04-15 14:48 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-15 15:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-14 22:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] block: replace BKL with global mutex Douglas Gilbert
2010-04-15 7:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-15 13:15 ` Douglas Gilbert
2010-04-15 14:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-15 20:03 ` Kai Makisara
2010-04-15 20:51 ` [PATCH] scsi/st: remove BKL from open Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-30 2:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-04-30 19:03 ` Kai Makisara
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-01 21:16 Arnd Bergmann
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