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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] MEMSTICK: add support for legacy memorysticks
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:25:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920182537.9e0920ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553730.24538.qm@web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> wrote:

> However, do you have a quick
> advice for a case, were idr_pre_get happens outside spin-locked section,
> as opposed to mutex one?

It sucks, but...

again:
	if (idr_pre_get(..., GFP_KERNEL) == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;		/* We're really out-of-memory */
	spin_lock(lock);
	if (idr_get_new(...) == -EAGAIN) {
		spin_unlock(lock);
		goto again;		/* Someone stole our preallocation! */
	}

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30 10:48 [PATCH 0/3 RESEND] My work on MemoryStick system Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] memstick: few changes to core Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] MEMSTICK: add support for legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-17 23:17   ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-18  1:06     ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-20 19:02       ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-21  1:16         ` Alex Dubov
2010-09-21  1:25           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-08-30 10:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] MEMSTICK: Add driver for Ricoh R5C592 Card reader Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 0/3 RESEND] My work on MemoryStick system Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-06  0:47   ` Alex Dubov

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