linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: zram: fix zram locking

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Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:35:05 -0400
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: zram: fix zram locking

On 09/06/2011 09:02 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> Currently init_lock only prevents concurrent execution of zram_init_device()
> and zram_reset_device() but not zram_make_request() nor sysfs store functions.
>

zram_make_request() initializes the device first time it is used and 
from then on no sysfs config writes are allowed till the device is reset 
-- for example, you cannot change disksize while a disk is in 
initialized state. So, I could not understand why we need to protect 
zram_make_request vs sysfs stores.

Thanks,
Nitin



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