From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2F16B0011 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 18:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.107]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p4CMCqdR012620 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 16:12:52 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p4CMTjdh351524 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 16:29:45 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p4CGTH6C006450 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 10:29:18 -0600 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] comm: ext4: Protect task->comm access by using %ptc From: John Stultz In-Reply-To: References: <1305073386-4810-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1305073386-4810-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:29:40 -0700 Message-ID: <1305239380.2680.26.camel@work-vm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: LKML , Ted Ts'o , KOSAKI Motohiro , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 15:14 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011, John Stultz wrote: > > > Converts ext4 comm access to use the safe printk %ptc accessor. > > > > CC: Ted Ts'o > > CC: KOSAKI Motohiro > > CC: David Rientjes > > CC: Dave Hansen > > CC: Andrew Morton > > CC: linux-mm@kvack.org > > Signed-off-by: John Stultz > > I like how this patch illustrates how easy it is to use the new method for > printing a task's command, but it would probably be easier to get the > first two patches in the series (those that add the seqlock and then %ptc) > merged in mainline and then break out a series of conversions such as this > that could go through the individual maintainer's trees. Agreed. I just wanted to show how it would be used compared to the earlier approach. I'll respin the first two patches shortly here. I also need to get the checkpatch bit done. Andrew, should these go upstream through you? thanks -john -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org