On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 3:30 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> You may also want to look at Milton's comments, it looks like the way
> you do init_completion followed immediately by wait_completion is racy.
>
> You should init the completion before you do the IO that will eventually
> trig
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:31 PM Milton Miller wrote:
> Ingo I would propose the following commits added in 2.6.29 be reverted.
> I think the current concensus is drivers must know if the writeq is
> not atomic so they can provide their own locking or other workaround.
>
Exactly.
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:24 AM, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2011 around 17:00:10 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > (Just adding Milton to the CC list, he suspects races in the
> > driver instead).
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 08:23 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2