From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockd
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:13:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096913608.2788.19.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096912891.22446.67.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
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On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 20:01, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> På må , 04/10/2004 klokka 18:24, skreiv Steve Dickson:
> > Hey Neil,
> >
> > Attached is a patch that fixes some potential SMP races
> > in the lockd code that were identified by the SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK
> > that was (at one time) in the -mm tree...
>
> Just for the record: the "SMP race condition" argument given here is
> completely bogus. sleep_on_* is quite safe to use when the SMP races are
> being handled using the BKL, as is the case here.
actually this triggered because there was NO bkl... if you hold the bkl
the warning doesn't trigger.....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 16:24 Steve Dickson
2004-10-04 17:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-10-04 19:25 ` Steve Dickson
2004-10-04 18:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-10-04 18:13 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-10-04 18:22 ` Trond Myklebust
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