RE: [PATCH 2/6] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: keep locks balanced on add_memory() failure

KY Srinivasan
2015-03-12T12:44:10Z

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@aepfle.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:14 AM
> To: Vitaly Kuznetsov
> Cc: KY 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
>
> 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.

Yes; I notified Greg of this and I have resent the set with proper tag for Greg to pick this set up
for 4.0.

Regards,

K. Y
>
> Olaf
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