From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752837Ab0C2ShT (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:37:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1026 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728Ab0C2ShR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:37:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:35:02 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: John Kacur , Roland McGrath , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall Message-ID: <20100329183502.GA17842@redhat.com> References: <1269812331-8511-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20100329114046.GB16971@redhat.com> <520f0cf11003290506o629c9ab6n95c94c48ba24acf4@mail.gmail.com> <20100329130526.GA23201@redhat.com> <520f0cf11003290626q2e74c5d1r1eebb07a75e25dd5@mail.gmail.com> <20100329182204.GE5101@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100329182204.GE5101@nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/29, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:26:26PM +0200, John Kacur wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > > > Cough. I must admit, apart from "urgent" bugfixes the only way I know > > > is to send the patch to Andrew. > > > > > > So I'd suggest to send this patch to akpm. Of course, if you wish I can > > > forward it, but doesn't matter. > > > > > I know that in the past, Thomas was keeping a BKL tree in tip, but not sure if > > he is still doing so. It seems that Arnd's tree is at least partially > > experimental, > > so I wonder if we need to maintain another BKL tree somewhere of fixes > > that have no > > obvious maintainer, but are ready to send to Linus for inclusion? > > > I have cc'ed Andrew for this patch, partly for that purpose, so that he > can take it if he wants to. Ah, good, I didn't notice. If he doesn't pick this patch now, I'll forward it to him later again ;) > But in the worst case these patches are never lost. We don't want to lose > them. For those that can't go in someone else .35 targeted tree for any reason, > I can queue them up in mine in a dedicated branch that I'll propose to Linus. Frederic, whatever is more convenient to you. Oleg.