Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] locking: Annotate spin_unlock_wait() users
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue May 24 2016 - 12:22:16 EST
Hello,
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:17:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So don't talk about "acquire". And most certainly don't talk about
> "control dependencies". Not if we end up having things like *drivers*
> using this like in this example libata.
A delta but that particular libata usage is probably not needed now.
The path was used while libata was gradually adding error handlers to
the low level drivers. I don't think we don't have any left w/o one
at this point. I'll verify and get rid of that usage.
Thanks.
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tejun