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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_private
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F716AF.1040206@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130729142158.GA9338@redhat.com>

(2013/07/29 23:21), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/29, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>
>> (2013/07/27 2:25), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>> Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear ->i_private for every
>>> file we are going to remove.
>>
>> Oleg, I think this should be done first.
>>
>> AFAICS, your former patches depend strongly on this change.
>> Without this, they don't work as you expected, and it may
>> prevent git-bisect.
> 
> Why?
> 
> v2 specially does this in the last change for bisecting/etc.
> 
> 1-4 change f_op->read/write to check i_private != NULL but until
> this final patch i_private == NULL is not possible.

Ah, OK. So 1-4 changes still remain refcount code, then
it is safe, just i_private != NULL are added. I misread.


>> I see, including this patch also breaks current ftrace.
> 
> Could you clarify?

Yes, let me add reviewed-by tags ;)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 17:25 [PATCH v2 0/6] tracing: open/delete fixes Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] tracing: Turn event/id->i_private into call->event.type Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:29   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] tracing: Change event_enable/disable_read() to verify i_private != NULL Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:31   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-30  1:42     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] tracing: Change event_filter_read/write " Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:34   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] tracing: Change f_start() to take event_mutex and " Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:33   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir() Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:33   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_private Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-28 18:35   ` [PATCH v3 " Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:36     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-30  2:01       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-29  9:43   ` [PATCH v2 " Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-29 14:21     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-30  1:28       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2013-07-30  1:59         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-28 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] tracing: open/delete fixes Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-29 11:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-29 14:43   ` Oleg Nesterov

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