From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932227AbWFXHgb (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933209AbWFXHgb (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:31 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:57833 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932227AbWFXHga (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:30 -0400 Message-ID: <449CEB7C.3060004@watson.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:28 -0400 From: Shailabh Nagar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: jlan@sgi.com, balbir@in.ibm.com, csturtiv@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Revised locking for taskstats interface References: <449C2A44.9000206@watson.ibm.com> <20060623233245.77f365bb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060623233245.77f365bb.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:52:04 -0400 >Shailabh Nagar wrote: > > > >>Convert locking used within taskstats interface and delay accounting >>code to be more fine-grained. >> >> > >This patch is based on >per-task-delay-accounting-taskstats-interface-fix-exit-race-in-per-task-delay-accounting.patch, >which I've noted as `nacked' but didn't drop. > >So I guess that's now un-nacked? > > Not in intent. This patch reverses all the changes made by that patch. So effectively the previous patch is still nacked. However, I based this patch on the previous one because you hadn't dropped the latter (so we're going round in circles !) How about I just send one patch that covers the whole locking thing ? --Shailabh