Re: 2.4 TODO addition (loopback fs deadlocks)

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 17:42:24 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:23:20AM +0000, Steve Dodd wrote:
>
> Errrm, call me stupid, but doesn't generic_unplug_device grab the
> io_request_lock? Which will still be held when ext2's block_getblk sleeps..

It shouldn't be. Sleeping while holding a spinlock of any description
is entirely against the rules!

--Stephen

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