Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263945AbTHWRUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:20:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263394AbTHWRA4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:00:56 -0400 Received: from ns.aratech.co.kr ([61.34.11.200]:30643 "EHLO ns.aratech.co.kr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264018AbTHWQee (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:34:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:36:27 +0900 From: TeJun Huh To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: TeJun Huh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) Message-ID: <20030823163627.GA7226@atj.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Stephan von Krawczynski , TeJun Huh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030823025448.GA32547@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823040931.GA3872@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823052633.GA4307@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823122813.0c90e241.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030823151315.GA6781@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823175604.1ddb119d.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030823175604.1ddb119d.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 28 On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:56:04PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:13:15 +0900 > TeJun Huh wrote: > > > Hello, Stephan. > > > > The race conditions I'm mentioning in this thread are not likely to > > cause real troubles. The first one does not make any difference on > > x86, and AFAIK bh isn't used extensively anymore so the second one > > isn't very relevant either. Only the race condition mentioned in the > > other thread is of relvance if there is any :-(. > > Are you sure? bh is used in fs subtree to my knowledge ... > Wow, I'm not sure. Because our application is mostly concerned with network and raw DISK I/O, I haven't been paying attention to fs codes. If bh can be problematic, I'll try to rethink about the bh synchronization and make a patch tomorrow, probably another one or two liner. First thing tomorrow. -- tejun - 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/