linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] pstore: change mutex locking to spin

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:57:28 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks

> > Is it safe to call pstore_mkfile with IRQ disabled?
> > 
> > pstore_mkfile -> d_alloc_name -> d_alloc -> kmem_cache_alloc(, GFP_KERNEL).
>
> Don't know.  But would that mean we would have to put the pstore_mkfile
> on a workqueue then or something similar?

That might be a good idea anyway.  In the "oops" case we'd like the file
to appear in the pstore filesystem if the system stayed healthy despite
the oops[1]. There isn't any reason why the pstore entry must appear instantly.
Delaying the creation would avoid running into problems related to the
oops.

-Tony

[1] So we can remove it to free pstore backend space - if we didn't die
from the oops, then the oops is going to be in /var/log/messages.
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