linux/arch/um
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 33f775eea1 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup
Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.

When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e.  another thread on the host,
which does the actual requests and is the only one blocked on I/O on the host)
has done some work, we call again the request function ourselves
(do_ubd_request).

We now do that with ubd_io_lock held - that's useful to protect against
concurrent calls to elv_next_request and so on.

XXX: Maybe we shouldn't call at all the request function.  Input needed on
this.  Are we supposed to plug and unplug the queue?  That code "indirectly"
does that by setting a flag, called do_ubd, which makes the request function
return (it's a residual of 2.4 block layer interface).

Meanwhile, however, merge this patch, which improves things.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
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drivers [PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup 2006-10-31 08:06:59 -08:00
include [PATCH] uml: mconsole fixes 2006-10-24 22:01:10 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] uml: split memory allocation prototypes out of user.h 2006-10-20 10:26:36 -07:00
os-Linux [PATCH] Fix "Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML" 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
scripts kbuild: fix ia64 breakage after introducing make -rR 2006-07-01 09:58:02 +02:00
sys-i386 [PATCH] Fix "Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML" 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
sys-ia64 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sys-ppc Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
sys-x86_64 [PATCH] Fix "Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML" 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
config.release Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] uml: remove syscall debugging 2006-07-10 13:24:24 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] uml: use DEFCONFIG_LIST to avoid reading host's config 2006-10-20 10:26:36 -07:00
Kconfig.char [PATCH] uml: kconfig - silence warning 2006-10-20 10:26:36 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] uml: remove syscall debugging 2006-07-10 13:24:24 -07:00
Kconfig.i386 [PATCH] uml: allow finer tuning for host VMSPLIT setting 2006-10-11 11:14:21 -07:00
Kconfig.net [PATCH] uml: Rename Kconfig files to be like the other arches 2005-09-05 00:06:19 -07:00
Kconfig.scsi [PATCH] uml: Rename Kconfig files to be like the other arches 2005-09-05 00:06:19 -07:00
Kconfig.x86_64 [PATCH] um: fix undefined reference to hweight32 2006-03-26 08:57:09 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
Makefile-i386 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
Makefile-ia64 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile-os-Linux Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile-ppc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile-skas [PATCH] uml makefiles sanitized 2005-09-29 08:46:26 -07:00
Makefile-tt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile-x86_64 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00