Re: [NBD] Use per-device semaphore instead of BKL

[Paul Clements]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:42:23PM -0500, Paul Clements wrote:
>
> > nbd-client -d (disconnect) is the main reason -- this functionality 
> > would be broken if we didn't allow ioctls anymore
>
>
> Good point.  In fact my initial patch missed a pair of locks around
> this case as well.  Here is a patch to move NBD_DISCONNECT outside
> the ioctl_lock and add a tx_lock around it.

Yep, I think that will do it. I'll test these two patches some and let 
you know if I see any problems.

Thanks again.

--
Paul

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