From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [8/11] SYSCTL: Convert hotplug helper string to proc_rcu_string()
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:03:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091222190345.GA26392@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091221012029.AEE3CB158A@basil.firstfloor.org>
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:20:29AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> This avoids races with lockless sysctl.
>
> I also moved the code into a separate function because the original
> was very long.
>
> Cc: greg@kroah.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 1:20 [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string sysctls Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [1/11] Add rcustring ADT for RCU protected strings Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 2:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-22 10:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 20:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [2/11] Add a kernel_address() that works for data too Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [3/11] SYSCTL: Add proc_rcu_string to manage sysctls using rcu strings Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 2:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-22 3:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-22 7:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [4/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU strings for core_pattern sysctl Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [5/11] SYSCTL: Add call_usermodehelper_cleanup() Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [6/11] SYSCTL: Convert modprobe_path to proc_rcu_string() Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [7/11] SYSCTL: Convert poweroff_command to proc_rcu_string Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [8/11] SYSCTL: Convert hotplug helper string to proc_rcu_string() Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 19:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [9/11] SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [10/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU protected sysctl for ocfs group add helper Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:20 ` [PATCH] [11/11] SYSCTL: Convert IRDA text sysctl to RCU Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 1:59 ` [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-21 2:04 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 2:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-21 3:21 ` Andi Kleen
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