From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753865AbbCLLOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:14:32 -0400 Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([81.169.146.217]:25471 "EHLO mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbbCLLOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:14:30 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2EQZWCpfu+qG7CngxMFH1J+yackYocTD1iAi8x+OWi/zfN1cLnBYfssV4pSFZalwAeMSYGGVMSyQaZuzod+milLZOzKSQ== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:14:28 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, apw@canonical.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: keep locks balanced on add_memory() failure Message-ID: <20150312111428.GA17163@aepfle.de> References: <1426125345-12530-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1426125419-12571-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1426125419-12571-2-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20150312104543.GB11353@aepfle.de> <87zj7isd0d.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zj7isd0d.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.rev6346 (2013-10-29) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 12, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > My "Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: eliminate the trylock path in > acquire/release_region_mutex" (b05d8d9ef5ef21d1b18440430f950304836e1aaa > in char-misc-next) removed these wrappers. I see now. There are many changes in char-misc-next. The description gives the impression that mainline is broken. Not sure if thats true, perhaps its just char-misc-next which is affected. Olaf