Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:51:59 -0800 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler() |
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> Zach> > Doh. Unfortunately, this patch isn't entirely correct as it > Zach> could race with > __put_ioctx() which sets ioctx->mm = NULL. > > Zach> Aha, yeah, that's what I was missing. Thanks. > > Zach> > Something like the following should do the trick: > > Zach> Cool, I'll respin and send it out. > > Did you ever resend this patch, Zach?
Sadly, no. I vaguely remember thinking that the refcounting was pretty messed up in these paths and that more than just this patch was needed. I don't remember the details.
Maybe I should take a look again :/.
> current kernels. I'm still running into the lockdep warnings.
When doing what? Working with that IO_CMD_EPOLL_WAIT patch?
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