Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:19:41 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Disk hot removal causing oopses and fixes |
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Stefan Richter wrote: > I dare say without knowing the MMC and block system: It is not a > locking issue, it is a reference counting issue. [...] > The whole secret is not to forget to count _all_ references.
PS, in case that it might be needed: Sometimes a low level wants to wait for the moment until its upper level users went away. Reference counting is then coupled with constructs like wait_for_completion then. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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