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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] proc: bye bye tasklist_lock
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:29:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911182956.GA246@oleg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609111319.42132.jdelvare@suse.de>

On 09/11, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > fs/proc/ does not use tasklist_lock anymore.
> >
> > These patches are simple enough and do not depend on each other.
> > The only problem I don't know how to really test them.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand what it is all about: Is there a relation 
> between this patchset and the recent patch from Eric fixing the 
> readdir(/proc) race?

No, they are not related. This series doesn't fix bugs, just
removes tasklist_lock from fs/proc/ entirely.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-09 22:18 [PATCH 0/3] proc: bye bye tasklist_lock Oleg Nesterov
2006-09-11 11:19 ` Jean Delvare
2006-09-11 18:29   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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