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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: giometti@linux.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, peter@hurleysoftware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] pps: Use a single cdev
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:47:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213184700.GA15633@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213183529.27043.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:35:29PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> > You forgot a Signed-off-by: line for this patch, so I can't apply it, or
> > the 9/9 patch :(
> 
> Oops, fixed.  I don't see why the 9/9 patch depends on it,
> though.  They're not related or interdependent in any way.
> 
> If you want to check the logic, I'd appreciate it.  I'm not
> really sure about the RCU stuff.  My understanding is that:
> - the idr code does the appropriate write locking when
>   modifying itself, so I don't need to do any.
> - The pps_device returned from idr_find is itself refcounted,
>   so it can't go away, and the accesses don't have bo be
>   inside the RCU read "lock".  It's only the IDR's internal
>   index nodes that might get reallocated by modificaitons of
>   a different part of the tree.
> 
> > Care to resend just these two after fixing this up?
> 
> I can, but if you think you need 9/9 resent (which *did* have a S-o-b),
> I'm confused and wonder why...

I stopped at that point in the series, that's the only reason why, I
didn't "check" to see if there was a dependancy, I just assumed there
was...

So please resend, thanks.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 13:56 [PATCH v2 0/9] 3.8-rc regression with pps-ldisc due to 70ece7a731 George Spelvin
2013-02-06 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] tty: Remove ancient hardpps() Peter Hurley
2013-02-08  6:50 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] tty/tty_ldisc.c: use test_and_clear_bit in tty_ldisc_close George Spelvin
2013-02-10  9:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function George Spelvin
2013-02-10  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] pps: Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling George Spelvin
2013-02-10  9:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do George Spelvin
2013-02-10  9:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] pps: Additional cleanups in uart_handle_dcd_change George Spelvin
2013-02-12  7:00 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper George Spelvin
2013-02-13 18:16   ` Greg KH
2013-02-12  7:02 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] pps: Use a single cdev George Spelvin
2013-02-13 18:20   ` Greg KH
2013-02-13 18:35     ` George Spelvin
2013-02-13 18:47       ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-02-21  1:35   ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-12  7:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source George Spelvin
2013-02-13 16:45 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] 3.8-rc regression with pps-ldisc due to 70ece7a731 Greg KH
2013-02-13 17:11   ` Rodolfo Giometti

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