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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] comm: ext4: Protect task->comm access by using %ptc
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:34:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512153411.15c240bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305239380.2680.26.camel@work-vm>

On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:29:40 -0700
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 15:14 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2011, John Stultz wrote:
> > 
> > > Converts ext4 comm access to use the safe printk %ptc accessor.
> > > 
> > > CC: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> > > CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > > CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > > CC: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> > 
> > I like how this patch illustrates how easy it is to use the new method for 
> > printing a task's command, but it would probably be easier to get the 
> > first two patches in the series (those that add the seqlock and then %ptc) 
> > merged in mainline and then break out a series of conversions such as this 
> > that could go through the individual maintainer's trees.
> 
> Agreed. I just wanted to show how it would be used compared to the
> earlier approach.
> 
> I'll respin the first two patches shortly here. I also need to get the
> checkpatch bit done.
> 
> Andrew, should these go upstream through you?
> 

That works.  I have a little pile of task->comm patches here, but I
expect that resolving everything will be pretty straightforward.

Don't forget the checkpatch patch :)

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11  0:23 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] v2 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] comm: Introduce comm_lock seqlock to protect task->comm access John Stultz
2011-05-11 17:39   ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-12 22:00   ` David Rientjes
2011-05-11  0:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:51   ` Joe Perches
2011-05-11  1:10     ` John Stultz
2011-05-11  1:16       ` john stultz
2011-05-11  1:20       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 22:12         ` David Rientjes
2011-05-12 22:29           ` Joe Perches
2011-05-13 21:56             ` David Rientjes
2011-05-12 22:10       ` David Rientjes
2011-05-11  9:33   ` Américo Wang
2011-05-11 21:02     ` John Stultz
2011-05-12 10:43       ` Américo Wang
2011-05-12 10:45         ` Américo Wang
2011-05-12 18:01         ` John Stultz
2011-05-11 17:36   ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-11 21:04     ` John Stultz
2011-05-11  0:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] comm: ext4: Protect task->comm access by using %ptc John Stultz
2011-05-12 22:14   ` David Rientjes
2011-05-12 22:29     ` John Stultz
2011-05-12 22:34       ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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