Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] bdev: add open_finish.

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:12:54AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:55:14AM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:22:32PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:52:45PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > Opening a block device may require a long operation such as waiting for
> > > > the cdrom tray to close. Performing this operation with locks held locks
> > > > out other attempts to open the device. These processes waiting to open
> > > > the device are not killable.
> 
> You can use mutex_lock_killable() to fix that.
> 

That solves only half of the problem.

It still does not give access to the device to processes that open with
O_NONBLOCK.

Thanks

Michal



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