linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] md: Avoid to call flush_scheduled

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Message-ID: <18946.28620.916415.205482@notabene.brown>
Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 15:21:16 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] md: Avoid to call flush_scheduled_work() with BKL
	held

On Sunday April 26, mingo@...e.hu wrote:
> 
> Hm, couldnt we switch the ioctl in drivers/md/md.c from 
> ->locked_ioctl to ->unlocked_ioctl?
> 
> Neil, what do you think?

Yes, definitely.  Though it is just 'ioctl', not 'unlocked_ioctl'.

I'll queue a patch for 2.6.31.

NeilBrown
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