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Date:      Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:53:07 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vfs.c 
Message-ID:  <28476.1141422787@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:48:19 %2B0100." <20060303214819.GB11030@garage.freebsd.pl> 

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In message <20060303214819.GB11030@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:


>+>  	g_topology_assert();
>+> @@ -147,7 +148,9 @@ g_vfs_open(struct vnode *vp, struct g_co
>+>  		g_wither_geom(gp, ENXIO);
>+>  		return (error);
>+>  	}
>+> +	vfslocked =3D VFS_LOCK_GIANT(vp->v_mount);
>+>  	vnode_create_vobject(vp, pp->mediasize, curthread);
>+> +	VFS_UNLOCK_GIANT(vfslocked);
>
>Acquiring Giant while holding the topology lock is a bad thing, AFAIK.
>CCing phk@ to correct me if I'm wrong or explain why exactly I'm right.

topology -> Giant is hopefully the correct order of not a lot of trouble
should be had in geom_dev when we call make_dev().

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