On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 13:54 -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > Instead, a global blktrace > mutex will be used to serialize the read/write of the blktrace sysfs > attributes. Hello Waiman, Using a mutex to serialize code is wrong. What is needed is exact documentation of what data structures and/or member variables are protected by bdev->bd_mutex and by blktrace_mutex. Also, please spell "potential" correctly in the subject of this patch. Thanks, Bart.