From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device: separate all subsys mutexes (was: Re: [BUG] potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved))
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:34:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130312133446.GA3514@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312130504.GD30758@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The fix is quite simple. We can pull the key inside bus_type structure
> because they are defined per device so the pointer will be unique as
> well. bus_register doesn't need to be a macro anymore so change it
> to the inline. We could get rid of __bus_register as there is no other
> caller but maybe somebody will want to use a different key so keep it
> around for now.
Nice work, but just drop __bus_register(), no one should need to use a
new key for this type of thing, now that you have added a per-bus_type
variable.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device: separate all subsys mutexes (was: Re: [BUG] potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved))
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:34:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130312133446.GA3514@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312130504.GD30758@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The fix is quite simple. We can pull the key inside bus_type structure
> because they are defined per device so the pointer will be unique as
> well. bus_register doesn't need to be a macro anymore so change it
> to the inline. We could get rid of __bus_register as there is no other
> caller but maybe somebody will want to use a different key so keep it
> around for now.
Nice work, but just drop __bus_register(), no one should need to use a
new key for this type of thing, now that you have added a per-bus_type
variable.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 6:36 [BUG] potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved) Li Zefan
2013-03-12 6:36 ` Li Zefan
2013-03-12 8:32 ` Hillf Danton
2013-03-12 8:32 ` Hillf Danton
[not found] ` <CAJd=RBB7GVp_Ry30SuZVa-FgOogEZ43UnXOGvVKesV=Qk96UDA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 9:35 ` Li Zefan
2013-03-12 9:35 ` Li Zefan
2013-03-12 9:35 ` Li Zefan
2013-03-12 10:15 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 10:15 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20130312101555.GB30758-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 11:07 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20130312110750.GC30758-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 13:05 ` [PATCH] device: separate all subsys mutexes (was: Re: [BUG] potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved)) Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 13:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-03-12 13:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20130312133446.GA3514-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 16:21 ` [PATCH -v2] " Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 16:21 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 16:21 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20130312162119.GB5963-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 18:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 18:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 18:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20130312130504.GD30758-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 15:28 ` [PATCH] " Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 15:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 15:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 15:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 15:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 15:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20130312154341.GB18852-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-12 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-12 16:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 16:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 16:13 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-12 16:13 ` Michal Hocko
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