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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:00:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090804160044.GA21153@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908040825210.3270@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:40:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I suspect we should take the three now. All of the issues are due to 
> totally rewritten code since 2.6.30 - I suspect the risk from new bugs 
> from that refcounting series is _smaller_ that the risk of bugs from the 
> original ldisc rewrite (commit c65c9bc3e), and if there are bugs, I 
> suspect the three patches are more likely to help than to hurt.

Ok, let me make up a git queue for you to pull them from and test it
first.  It will take a few hours, I have to play taxi for the kids
different summer camps this morning.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-02 12:01 WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-02 16:05 ` Greg KH
2009-08-02 17:01   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-02 17:07   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-02 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-02 19:05   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-02 20:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-02 21:17       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-02 21:33         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-02 22:46           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-02 22:48           ` Alan Cox
2009-08-03  0:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03  1:44               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03  9:37               ` Alan Cox
2009-08-03 16:26                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-03 16:59                   ` Alan Cox
2009-08-03 17:55               ` [PATCH 0/2] proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c) Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 17:58                 ` [PATCH 1/2] tty-ldisc: make refcount be atomic_t 'users' count Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 18:11                   ` [PATCH 2/2] tty-ldisc: turn ldisc user count into a proper refcount Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 18:39                     ` Alan Cox
2009-08-03 20:00                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-08-03 18:18                 ` [PATCH 0/2] proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c) Greg KH
2009-08-03 18:53                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 22:16                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-03 22:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 22:58                       ` [PATCH 3/2] tty-ldisc: be more careful in 'put_ldisc' locking Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 23:00                         ` [PATCH 4/2] tty-ldisc: make /proc/tty/ldiscs use ldisc_ops instead of ldiscs Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 23:01                           ` [PATCH 5/2] tty-ldisc: get rid of tty_ldisc_try_get() helper function Linus Torvalds
2009-08-04  0:30                   ` proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c) Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-04  0:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-04  3:53                       ` Greg KH
2009-08-04  4:08                         ` Greg KH
2009-08-04  6:19                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-04  7:23                             ` Greg KH
2009-08-04  9:12                               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-08-04 14:53                                 ` Greg KH
2009-08-04 15:40                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-04 16:00                                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-08-02 22:15       ` WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c Sergey Senozhatsky

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