Re: Should we use preempt_disable() in sleep_on_common()?

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:12:44PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:07:46PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:49:14 +0800
> > liu pf <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi:
> > > 
> > > I am puzzled with the following scenario. Could anyone enlighten me?
> > 
> > 
> > sleep_on family of APIs is very racy and just cannot be used correctly;
> > I'm not surprised that there's a preempt race in it, but trust me, it's
> > not the biggest race... never ever use these APIs!!!
> > 
> > 
> 
> BTW, why do we still have them? I checked couple and they don't seem to
> be used...
> 

Ah, my bad, I now see interruptible_sleep_on used all over drivers/char...

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Dmitry
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