From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754967AbXFMEvQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751423AbXFMEvF (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:51:05 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:3708 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbXFMEvC (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:51:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WPMYQQCfsxwsKAAVgMcJq5Lt8tcaM6KDuhDC/2lOCeU+MpDIP3Bpnd+lEtLMaULSxU5piciRjhkAygLlVxWYoOtPITPpRq5hcCOyBUcq2mYjFxpKxYBjTW5avVdHDuYY+jNzDNCAtYXt1AL5K+Y2RMcuwGjMp+XnHK9nWSk6gW4= Message-ID: <466F77AE.3050007@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:50:54 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH 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 References: <20070611050107.GJ29122@htj.dyndns.org> <20070610231203.730d0aba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <466CE88B.2050803@gmail.com> <20070612234732.GA26286@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20070612234732.GA26286@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > 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? >> I can rebase all sysfs patches in -mm on top of linus#master + these >> fixes if necessary. > > Ok, I've sent these to Linus, so if he takes them, can you rebase your > patches on top of this and resend the whole tree to me (or just the ones > that needed to be modified, if that's easier.) Sure thing. > thanks again for this fix, I really appreciate it. :-) -- tejun