linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] eventfd: add internal reference counting to fix notifier race conditions

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:23:31 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Cc:	avi@...hat.com, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] eventfd: add internal reference counting to fix
	notifier race conditions

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:41:09PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:22PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >   
> >> Please take a close look at it and consider for merging, if you would.
> >>     
> >
> > With all the incremental patching, I kind of lost track of what the
> > complete file would look like.  Is there a git tree I could pull?
> >
> >   
> 
> Ask and ye shall receive :)
> 
> git pull
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks.git
> kvm/irqfd
> 
> If you dont have a kernel.org account, it should rsync to the
> gitweb/git: server soon, in which case
> s|ssh://master|git://git should get you the proper path.
> 
> Note that there is one additional race that I found that is not included
> in that tree in the slow-work infrastructure.  You can find my latest
> submission to David Howells to resolve that issue here:
> 
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/32287/
> 
> Thanks Michael!
> -Greg
> 

Yes, I saw that. I agree your patch solves that issue.

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