From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751709Ab3BPHCp (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:02:45 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f48.google.com ([209.85.215.48]:47197 "EHLO mail-la0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102Ab3BPHCo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:02:44 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:02:40 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Richard Weinberger Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, davej@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: + futex-avoid-kernel-taint-caused-by-get_robust_list.patch added to -mm tree Message-ID: <20130216070240.GA20312@moon> References: <20130215222653.B8B115A41F0@corp2gmr1-2.hot.corp.google.com> <20130215234444.29345fc3@spider.haslach.nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130215234444.29345fc3@spider.haslach.nod.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:44:44PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > The ability to deprecate this code has been called into question[1], > > but if that remains to be finalized, then making this change in the > > interim seems to make sense. > > Do we really want to remove this system call in 2013? > Note, Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt is gone... > > CRIU folks, I guess you still need the call? > Or have you found an alternative way to get the robost list? Yes, we need this call and we use it. > As stated in [0], I'd simply revert commit ec0c4274 ("futex: Mark > get_robust_list as deprecated") Thanks!