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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
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Hi all,


Is this patchset going to be merged into 3.12?

Thanks,
--
Tomoki

On 9/23/13 16:14 , "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:11:55PM +0000, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
>> >Hmm... why aren't we just changing elevator_init() to grab sysfs_lock
>> >where necessary?
>>
>> The locking cannot be moved into elevator_init() because it is called
>> from elevator_switch() path, where the request_queue's sysfs_lock is
>> already taken.
>>
>> > It'd be more consistent with elevator_exit() that way.
>>
>> What elevator_exit() locks is elevator_queue's sysfs_lock, not
>> request_queue's sysfs_lock. What we need here is request_queue's
>> sysfs_lock.
>
>Ah, okay.
>
> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>tejun



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