Re: fix queue_lock usage in blk-mq and nvme

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 02:37:19 EST


ping?

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:38:12AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Historically we always take queue_lock with irqs disabled. Blk-mq doesn't really
> use the queue_lock much, but when it does it needs to follow this rules to make
> lockdep happy.
>
> The first patch removes a queue_lock usage instead of fixing things properly,
> and the second is a bad-aid for nvme. In the long run I'd prefer to remove
> other users of the queue_lock from blk-mq and blk-mq based driver entirely,
> but that will require a bit more work.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-nvme mailing list
> Linux-nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvme
---end quoted text---
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/