From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] driver core: Fix some race conditions
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 07:27:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026040539-sponge-publisher-2b42@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260404000644.522677-1-dianders@chromium.org>
On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 05:04:54PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> NOTE: one potentially "controversial" choice I made in some patches
> was to always reserve a flag ID even if a flag is only used under
> certain CONFIG_ settings. This is a change from how things were
> before. Keeping the numbering consistent and allowing easy
> compile-testing of both CONFIG settings seemed worth it, especially
> since it won't take up any extra space until we've added a lot more
> flags.
Nah, this is fine, I don't see any problems with this as the original
code kind of was doing the same thing with the "hole" in the structure
if those options were not enabled.
> I only marked the first patch as a "Fix" since it is the only one
> fixing observed problems. Other patches could be considered fixes too
> if folks want.
>
> I tested the first patch in the series backported to kernel 6.6 on the
> Pixel phone that was experiencing the race. I added extra printouts to
> make sure that the problem was hitting / addressed. The rest of the
> patches are tested with allmodconfig with arm32, arm64, ppc, and
> x86. I boot tested on an arm64 Chromebook running mainline.
I'm guessing your tests passed? :)
Anyway, this looks great, unless there are any objections, other than
the "needs to be undefined", which a follow-on patch can handle, I'll
queue them up next week for 7.1-rc1.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-05 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-04 0:04 [PATCH v4 0/9] driver core: Fix some race conditions Douglas Anderson
2026-04-04 0:05 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] driver core: Replace dev->dma_coherent with dev_dma_coherent() Douglas Anderson
2026-04-06 5:49 ` Vinod Koul
2026-04-04 17:11 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] driver core: Fix some race conditions Rafael J. Wysocki
2026-04-05 5:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-04-05 12:02 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-05 22:43 ` Doug Anderson
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