Re: [patch 12/14] drivers/dmapool: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE insteadof TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE

[Andrew Morton]

Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Also, __set_current_state() can be user here: the add_wait_queue() contains
>  > the necessary barriers.  (Grubby, but we do that in quite a few places with
>  > this particular code sequence (we should have an add_wait_queue() variant
>  > which does the add_wait_queue+__set_current_state all in one hit (but let's
>  > not, else I'll be buried in another 1000 cleanuplets))).
> 
>  Ok, I will re-spin this patch. Or would you prefer an incremental one?

Let's forget about this one while we work out whether that code is doing
what we want it to do.

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