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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, efault@gmx.de,
	Arne Jansen <lists@die-jansens.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:08:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609170804.1b76e853.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1106091655560.2710@sister.anvils>

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:

> Does your mail below stir any useful memories?

Thanks.  I did have the email, but it didn't match any of my grep
patterns.

> Some notes:

Stupid thing doesn't explain the magical locking though :( I'm 99.9%
sure that putting an up() inside a spinlock_irq()ed region was
deliberate.

> - Being heartily sick of reverse-engineering interface information
>   from implementations, I have gratuitously added comments in several
>   random parts of the kernel.  Shoot me.

hah.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-09 13:06 [PATCH 0/3] printk: Remove lockdep_off() and wakeups Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 20:06   ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-09 20:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 20:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 21:07         ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-09 23:57           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-10  0:08             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-06-10  9:33               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-10  9:40                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10  9:42                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 11:28             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:30               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:34                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-10 12:41                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 12:42                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-23 19:03                 ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-10  9:30         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-10 10:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk, lockdep: Remove lockdep_off() usage Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-10 13:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] printk: Avoid all wakeups from printk Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:32   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 13:40     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 13:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 14:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 14:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 14:23             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09 15:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-09 15:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-09 16:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra

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