linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1: kcryptd vs lockdep

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Message-ID: <20071124040324.GM24157@agk.fab.redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:03:24 +0000
From:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
To:	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1: kcryptd vs lockdep

Also io->pending may need better protection - atomic, but missing memory
barriers?  (May be getting away without sometimes due to side-effects of
other function calls, but needs doing properly.)

[BTW Other device-mapper atomic_t usage also needs reviewing.]

Alasdair
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