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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org, zygo.blaxell@xandros.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LIB: remove unmatched write_lock() in gen_pool_destroy
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:29:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090615152959.7d4f4982.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A36C55F.6060002@opengridcomputing.com>

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:04:15 -0500
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> wrote:

> > this doesn't really qualify for trivial tree, as it introduces a 
> > significant code change. Adding some CCs.
> >
> >   
> 
> Looks ok to me.  Its dumb to aquire the lock you're gonna free anyway.  
> Maybe some BUG_ON() that sez nobody better be holding this lock?

CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE could detect the freeing of a held rwlock. 
But probably it hasn't been wired up to handle rwlocks.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 17:37 [PATCH] LIB: remove unmatched write_lock() in gen_pool_destroy Zygo Blaxell
2009-06-15 21:35 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-06-15 22:04   ` Steve Wise
2009-06-15 22:29     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-06-16  8:23       ` Jiri Kosina
2009-06-16  8:35         ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-15 22:26   ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-15 22:30     ` Steve Wise
2009-06-15 22:54       ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-16  0:27         ` Steve Wise

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