Re: command emulation fix

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Hello,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:21:20PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 06:07:23PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Ugh... I don't know.  What we had previously is always guaranteed to
> > work.  I'm not really liking the fact that we're adding a possibility
> > of failure here.  Even if we do mempool, we would still have to
> > protect it with a spinlock as mempool only guarantees one allocation
> > at a time.  Until we have a better solution, can we please revert back
> > to where we were at least for the buffers needed from atomic context?
> 
> In that case you'll need to drop all but the first patch from the series
> as ->queuecommand can always be called from atomic context.

I reverted just the last patch.  The rest should be fine, right?

Thanks.

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tejun
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