On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:27:05AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Duh, good point. My main concern is that things like usb gadget will
> have to deal with races between cancellation and completion on their
> own. It would be nice if we had infrastructure for them to use. I'll
> have a look through t
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 06:26:39PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> >> The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the
>> >> iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause
>> >> a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving t
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 06:26:39PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> >> The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the
> >> iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause
> >> a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving the cancelation
> >> outside the c
Jeff Moyer writes:
> Christoph Hellwig writes:
>
>> The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the
>> iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause
>> a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving the cancelation
>> outside the context lock to a
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the
> iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause
> a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving the cancelation
> outside the context lock to avoid this reversal.
>
> Sign
The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the
iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause
a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving the cancelation
outside the context lock to avoid this reversal.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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