From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753948Ab0DLUcc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:32:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f204.google.com ([209.85.222.204]:34481 "EHLO mail-pz0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753926Ab0DLUca (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:32:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=q55GPHmqI6pg9lH0m1Km8z9F6G/XuJmWW84u1bkSEv4oAyIAm29rGo0aFDsA4bMzNT g4f0+bFKWawFHHa1bA23y8tci9ArAnW887kLTObOzMBH5nVVuLisMuWW4JB1/Ci2neYj rj5PHoT3hoAnbJDBMiBgkZq+vf/rRDGSMAKrc= Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:23 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Andrew Morton Cc: Oleg Nesterov , John Kacur , Roland McGrath , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall Message-ID: <20100412203221.GB8285@nowhere> 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> <20100329183502.GA17842@redhat.com> <20100401184855.GB6142@nowhere> <20100412132910.098e3ddf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100412132910.098e3ddf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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 Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:29:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:48:58 +0200 > Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > I have applied it to: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git > > bkl/core > > > > It hasn't turned up in linux-next yet? I've asked Stephen two days ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/10/42 I guess this is going to show up in -next soon.