Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753326AbZFFIIf (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:08:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752180AbZFFIIU (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:08:20 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:48094 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752071AbZFFIIT (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:08:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:08:20 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Tejun Heo , Alexey Dobriyan , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] vfs: Implement unpoll_file. Message-ID: <20090606080820.GA16867@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1243893048-17031-2-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1243893048-17031-2-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 14 On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:50:27PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > During a revoke operation it is necessary to stop using all state that is managed > by the underlying file operations implementation. The poll wait queue is one part > of that state. Erm... Seeing that drivers and filesystems tend to have fsckloads of other state of their own, why do we treat that separately? -- 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/