From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: vt, make sysfs operations atomic
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:48:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527204858.GI5713@cathedrallabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483C6EAE.4050401@gmail.com>
>> the reason for the code be the way it is is because vcs_{add,remove}_sysfs()
>> may sleep
>
> What's the point? To have races in the code but not sleep inside the semaphore?
what about fixing the code to remove the race _and_ not sleep inside the
semaphore? :)
--
Aristeu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 11:53 Jiri Slaby
2008-05-26 11:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 19:43 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2008-05-27 20:27 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-27 20:48 ` Aristeu Rozanski [this message]
2008-05-28 22:57 ` Andrew Morton
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