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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Simon.Derr@bull.net, pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset release ABBA deadlock fix
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:25:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050808232558.7173fdd7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050808223722.22843.86768.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com>

Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Fix possible cpuset_sem ABBA deadlock if 'notify_on_release' set.
> 

So..  Is this 2.6.13-safe?

> +	(void) call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, 0);

ick.  Why the cast?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-09  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 22:37 [PATCH] cpuset release ABBA deadlock fix Paul Jackson
2005-08-09  6:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-08-09  7:06   ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-09  9:13     ` Paul Jackson
2005-08-09  8:25   ` Paul Jackson

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