Re: [PATCH RFC v2 04/29] PCI/MSI/pSeries: Make quota traversing andrequesting race-safe

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Nov 20 2013 - 10:43:42 EST


Hello,

Sorry about the long delay. Was traveling quite a bit.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 07:12:04PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please explain what the race condition in detail and how it gets fixed
by the patch. This isn't a trivial change and non-trivial changes
especially stuff like race condition fixes definitely require detailed
explanation.

Thanks.

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tejun
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