Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752807AbbHSG6q (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 02:58:46 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f172.google.com ([209.85.223.172]:34066 "EHLO mail-io0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524AbbHSG6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 02:58:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150818041429.GY26431@google.com> References: <1438039809-24957-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1438039809-24957-33-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20150818041429.GY26431@google.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:58:44 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -1dEVs-HKRxA8u6I0wRKhaKLKYg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 32/51] resources: Split out __allocate_resource() From: Yinghai Lu To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: David Miller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Wei Yang , TJ , Yijing Wang , Andrew Morton , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 14 On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:29:50PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> It will not hold lock, so we could use it in other functions that >> hold the resource lock already. > > What's the benefit of this patch? Does it fix something? Does it add some > functionality we need? will use it in following patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/