From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753776Ab2B2Foq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:44:46 -0500 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:38814 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751603Ab2B2Fop (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:44:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4F4DBB26.2060907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:14:06 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell , Nick Piggin , linux-kernel , Alexander Viro , Andi Kleen , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask: fix lg_lock/br_lock. References: <87ehtf3lqh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20120227155338.7b5110cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120228084359.GJ21106@elte.hu> <20120228132719.f375071a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120228132719.f375071a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 12022819-1396-0000-0000-000000BECF33 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, On 02/29/2012 02:57 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:43:59 +0100 > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> This patch should also probably go upstream through the >> locking/lockdep tree? Mind sending it us once you think it's >> ready? > > Oh goody, that means you own > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131419353511653&w=2. > That bug got fixed sometime around Dec 2011. See commit e30e2fdf (VFS: Fix race between CPU hotplug and lglocks) > I do think the brlock code is sick, but Nick has turned into an ex-Nick > and nobody works on it. > Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat