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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] aio: make ctx ref debugging depend on DEBUG
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:37:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43726C1F.6050003@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051109212515.GJ14452@kvack.org>

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> NAK.  There's now no way for code outside aio.c to use the reference counting
> on iocbs, which is needed in other code.

Where is this other code?

In any case, sure, I'll rework it to leave the ctx refcounting in aio.h and
will add a comment.  Presumably we're not happy with the existing
ref-after-racing-free bug.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09 21:15 [PATCH 1/3] aio: remove kioctx from mm_struct Zach Brown
2005-11-09 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] aio: replace locking comments with assert_spin_locked() Zach Brown
2005-11-09 21:27   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-11-09 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] aio: make ctx ref debugging depend on DEBUG Zach Brown
2005-11-09 21:25   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-11-09 21:37     ` Zach Brown [this message]
2005-11-09 21:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] aio: remove kioctx from mm_struct Benjamin LaHaise

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