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[PATCH] Narrow blk_congestion_wait races
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:22:27 +0000 (16:22 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:22:27 +0000 (16:22 -0800)
commitc05d7ab9f15a0c6707e39a341f08558830708697
tree8223561ae1fa2f6283ea84e9c93127f35da59857tree | snapshot
parentf3179458d17d97c3e845401122da9454eb970147commit | diff
[PATCH] Narrow blk_congestion_wait races

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

The addition of the smp_mb and the other change is to try to close the
window for races a bit.  Obviously they can still happen, it's a racy
interface and it doesn't matter much.
drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c diff | blob | history
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