From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask: fix lg_lock/br_lock. Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:14:06 +0530 Message-ID: <4F4DBB26.2060907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <87ehtf3lqh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120227155338.7b5110cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120228084359.GJ21106@elte.hu> <20120228132719.f375071a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel , Alexander Viro , Andi Kleen , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:38810 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750773Ab2B2Fos (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:44:48 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:40:58 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20120228132719.f375071a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Andrew, On 02/29/2012 02:57 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:43:59 +0100 > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> This patch should also probably go upstream through the >> locking/lockdep tree? Mind sending it us once you think it's >> ready? > > Oh goody, that means you own > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131419353511653&w=2. > That bug got fixed sometime around Dec 2011. See commit e30e2fdf (VFS: Fix race between CPU hotplug and lglocks) > I do think the brlock code is sick, but Nick has turned into an ex-Nick > and nobody works on it. > Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat