Re: [PATCH 01/13] buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away frompdflush_operation()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:00:04PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit
> a2a9537ac0b37a5da6fbe7e1e9cb06c524d2a9c4. It open codes a simple
> async way of executing do_thaw_all() out of context, so we can get
> rid of pdflush.

Any good reason this isn't pushed upstream for 2.6.30 yet?

And if someone is inclined to clean up this area some generic way to
run sysrq tasks in user context would be great, as a lot of them need
to.
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