From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>,
osd-dev@open-osd.org
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation?
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:41:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110713144119.6e28dc03@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1D6900.6040500@cam.ac.uk>
On Jul 13 Jonathan Cameron wrote at LKML:
[...]
> Taking ida's first, how about the following patch? I'm not at
> all attached to the form it takes, merely to cutting out on the
> cut and paste.
>
> Note I've done only a few random places. There aren't that many ida
> users and I've only played with that for now.
>
> Remaining ida cases:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gmrid_manager.c: (cleans up in case of out of range)
> drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c: (locks not taken)
[...]
Boaz, Benny,
osd_uld.c::osd_minor_ida is accessed unsafely.
Device probe() and remove() methods are not globally serialized.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-13 9:44 RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation? Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-13 12:41 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2011-07-15 18:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-07-15 21:35 ` Stefan Richter
2011-07-13 13:14 ` Stefan Richter
2011-07-13 13:17 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-13 13:31 ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-13 13:48 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-21 6:50 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-21 7:37 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-21 8:19 ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-21 8:29 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-21 8:35 ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-22 11:13 ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-22 16:43 ` Jonathan Cameron
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