On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 11:29 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > +static void wakeup_timer_fn(unsigned long data) > +{ > + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = (struct backing_dev_info *)data; > + > + spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock); > + if (bdi->wb.task) { > + wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task); > + } else { > + /* > + * When bdi tasks are inactive for long time, they are killed. > + * In this case we have to wake-up the forker thread which > + * should create and run the bdi thread. > + */ > + wake_up_process(default_backing_dev_info.wb.task); > + } > + spin_unlock(&bdi->wb_lock); > +} OK, since now we use this lock in a timer, this should become a spin_lock_bh(). -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html