Re: + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree

Andrew Morton
2006-03-01T22:24:29Z

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:58:02PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > Greg wrote:
> > > As reported this is expected, and can be ignored safely. It's just scsi
> > > being bad :)
> >
> > Yeah - so I eventually realized.
> >
> > > > [<a0000001001eac90>] sysfs_create_group+0x30/0x2a0
> > > > sp=e00002343bd97d50 bsp=e00002343bd91120
> > > > [<a000000100809190>] topology_cpu_callback+0x70/0xc0
> > > > sp=e00002343bd97d60 bsp=e00002343bd910f0
> > > > [<a000000100809260>] topology_sysfs_init+0x80/0x120
> > > > sp=e00002343bd97d60 bsp=e00002343bd910d0
> > >
> > > This points at the sysfs cpu patches that are in -mm, which are not in
> > > my tree...
> >
> > So ... what does that mean for who should be looking at this?
>
> Hm, looks like that stuff went into mainline already, sorry I thought it
> was still in -mm.
>
> Look at changeset 69dcc99199fe29b0a29471a3488d39d9d33b25fc for details.

But Paul bisected it down to a particular not-merged patch,
gregkh-driver-allow-sysfs-attribute-files-to-be-pollable.patch, which I'll
admit doesn't look like it'll cause this.

Paul, did you test
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1.gz? That has the
sysfs-pollable patches reverted.

> I've cced Yanmin, who did that work.

You missed. I've added Yanmin now.