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DateTue, 10 Jun 2008 09:51:22 +0200
FromCornelia Huck <>
SubjectRe: [bug, 2.6.26-rc4/rc5] sporadic bootup crashes in blk_lookup_devt()/prepare_namespace()
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:11:09 -0700,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 07:15:21PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > The driver core changes in -next convert class->sem to
> > class->p->class_mutex, which makes it non-accessible to drivers.
> > Most of the locking is easily done through converting to the class
> > iterator functions, but there are some cases where this is not going to
> > work:
> > 
> > - The {register,unregister}_blkdev() functions, which don't directly
> > involve the class.
> > - The iterators for /proc/partitions, which take the lock in
> > part_start() and give it up again in part_stop().
> > 
> > Maybe we need a possibilty for a driver to lock a class from outside?
> 
> Why would that be needed?  We protect walking the class lists internally
> with the lock, that should be sufficient, right?

What about the two functions I cited above? Don't we want them
protected by the same lock?


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