linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 32/51] resources: Split out __allocate

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQUaNBYphhBhJWbePjxHZzCnXS5Qtj9zvUqy=x7qDQGahQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:58:44 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, TJ <linux@....tj>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 32/51] resources: Split out __allocate_resource()

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:29:50PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> It will not hold lock, so we could use it in other functions that
>> hold the resource lock already.
>
> What's the benefit of this patch?  Does it fix something?  Does it add some
> functionality we need?

will use it in following patch.
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