Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock inelevator_change()

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 06:47:16PM -0400, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
> Add locking of q->sysfs_lock into elevator_change() (an exported function)
> to ensure it is held to protect q->elevator from elevator_init(), even if
> elevator_change() is called from non-sysfs paths.
> sysfs path (elv_iosched_store) uses __elevator_change(), non-locking
> version, as the lock is already taken by elv_iosched_store().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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