From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: lockdep support for sysctl reference counting. Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:47:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1236934491.5188.209.camel@laptop> <49BA33BE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1236937423.22914.3698.camel@twins> <20090313103828.GB31094@elte.hu> <20090320085205.GB16021@elte.hu> <20090320182404.GA31629@elte.hu> <1237575134.4667.5.camel@laptop> <1237577688.4667.68.camel@laptop> <20090330152616.7cc2c87c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1238487045.28248.1774.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, jbeulich@novell.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ego@in.ibm.com, adobriyan@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:38938 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbZCaIrk (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:47:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1238487045.28248.1774.camel@twins> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Tue\, 31 Mar 2009 10\:10\:45 +0200") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Peter Zijlstra writes: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> So I merged these two patches. I designated them as to-be-merged via >> Alexey, with a Cc:Peter (IOW: wakey wakey ;)) > > Ah, I was under the impression they weren't quite finished yet, > apparently I was mistaken. > > Eric, didn't you need recursive locks fixed and such? In theory. In practice I removed the one case that could legitimately recurse. > Let me have a look at them.