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SubjectRe: Linux 2.2.13pre9
Hi,

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:29:11 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

>> wakeup_bdflush-2.2.10-A: avoid a deadlock in wakeup_bdflush.
>> run_task_queue() will sleep if we are flushing
>> loop buffers to disk.

> Need to have a look at this in depth first.

Looks safe enough. wakeup_bdflush() doesn't need to run the disk task
queue: the bdflush() code will do that itself just before going to
sleep, and if bdflush blocks internally on get_request_wait (the only
place where I think we can stall in a manner which might give us
deadlock), then we do an automatic run_task_queue(&tq_disk) before
waiting on the on the request wait queue.

--Stephen


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