Re: [PATCH] 2.5.20 IDE 85

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:00:20 +0200


Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
> AFAICS, you just introduced some nasty list races in the interrupt
> handlers. You must hold the queue locks when calling
> blkdev_dequeue_request() and end_that_request_last(), for instance.
>

No. Please be more accurate. Becouse:

1. If anything I have made existing races only "obvious".

2. It is called in the context of do_ide_request or ide_raw_taskfile
where we already have the lock.

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