On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:25:54 +0200
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>
> teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator. Has no
> effect on non-lockdep kernels.
>
There's no description here of the problem which is being worked around.
This leaves everyone in the dark.
> +static int
> +blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags)
> +{
> + /*
> + * This crockload is due to bad choice of ->open() type.
> + * It will go away.
> + * For now, block device ->open() routine must _not_
> + * examine anything in 'inode' argument except ->i_rdev.
> + */
> + struct file fake_file = {};
> + struct dentry fake_dentry = {};
> + fake_file.f_mode = mode;
> + fake_file.f_flags = flags;
> + fake_file.f_dentry = &fake_dentry;
> + fake_dentry.d_inode = bdev->bd_inode;
> +
> + return do_open(bdev, &fake_file, BD_MUTEX_WHOLE);
> +}
"crock" is a decent description ;)
How long will this live, and what will the fix look like?
(This is all a bit of a pain - carrying these patches in -mm will require
some effort, and they're not ready to go yet, which will lengthen the pain
arbitrarily).
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