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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] v6 Improve task->comm locking situation
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:48:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110518204805.GA11427@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518125616.b57e1881.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2011 21:48:11 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Dunno, %ptc ties into lowlevel sprintf() and takes a spinlock!
> 
> yup, that's a problem.

If the lock is removed it looks useful.

> > Oh, out of morbid curiosity, mind providing a log of bigger past incidents 
> > where you had to stick pins into a doll of me? (In private mail, if the list is 
> > too long ;-)
> 
> http://0.tqn.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/m/B/porcupine2.jpg

That looks manageable! I was hoping not to end up like this:

  http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00675/china_needle404_675809c.jpg

Thanks,

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18  1:41 [PATCH 0/4] v6 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-18  1:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] comm: Introduce comm_lock spinlock to protect task->comm access John Stultz
2011-05-18  2:01   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-18  4:11     ` John Stultz
2011-05-18  5:06       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-18  1:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] comm: Add lock-free task->comm accessor John Stultz
2011-05-18  1:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-18  1:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references John Stultz
2011-05-18  6:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] v6 Improve task->comm locking situation Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18  7:05   ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-18  7:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 19:03   ` John Stultz
2011-05-18 19:33     ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-18 19:48       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 19:56         ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-18 20:48           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-18 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-20 10:41   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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