From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-pre7 ide request races
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 03:23:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030414032339.27079dd8.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030414101747.GR9776@suse.de>
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> How would that solve the problem? The request could be gone even before
> end_that_request_last() is run, that is the issue.
In that case I didn't understand your description of the bug even the tiniest
little bit.
That request is sitting in the kernel stack of some process which is sleeping
in wait_for_completion(). Hence it is safe memory until someone runs
complete() against the completion struct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-14 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 9:34 Jens Axboe
2003-04-14 10:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-14 10:17 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-14 10:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-04-14 10:27 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-14 10:58 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-14 16:15 ` Mike Anderson
2003-04-14 19:02 ` Jens Axboe
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