From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756893AbXFLAy2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:54:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754262AbXFLAyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:54:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:38825 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753776AbXFLAyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:54:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:54:29 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cebbert@redhat.com, sandeen@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com, cs@tequila.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions Message-ID: <20070612005429.GA11388@kroah.com> References: <20070611050107.GJ29122@htj.dyndns.org> <20070610231203.730d0aba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <466CE88B.2050803@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <466CE88B.2050803@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:15:39PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> This patchset contains three minimal backports of fixes in -mm. With > >> all patches in the patchset and sysfs-races.patch applied, kernel > >> survived ~20 hours of stress test without any problem. > > > > So these are being proposed for 2.6.22? > > Yeap. > > > I do wonder about Rafael's bug which he bisected down to > > gregkh-driver-sysfs-use-singly-linked-list-for-sysfs_dirent-tree.patch. > > > > If that won't be a problem in this patchset then I spose it's probably best > > to go ahead with a 2.6.22 merge, but it's more a Greg thing than a me > > thing. > > I'm currently debugging that and it's irrelevant to these fixes. The > bug is introduced far after the fixes. > > > I don't have a tree to merge these patches into, unless I drop all the > > patches which are in Greg's tree. > > > > Greg, can I leave it up to you to decide how we are to proceed here? Ok, I'll test them out, and if look sane pass them to Linus. > I can rebase all sysfs patches in -mm on top of linus#master + these > fixes if necessary. Yeah, I'll need that if these look good enough, otherwise my tree will stop applying :) Give me some time tonight to do this... thanks, greg k-h