linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 16/27] PPC: use helpers for rlimits

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Date:	Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:06:03 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	nhorman@...driver.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, marcin.slusarz@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, oleg@...hat.com,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/27] PPC: use helpers for rlimits

Hi Ben,

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:16:03 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:47 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > Are you sure? The previous version with ACCESS_ONCE was generally
> > NACKed. This one uses a newly added helper which is much more cleaner
> > way to do it.
> 
> I haven't seen a nack, but then I haven't pushed out yet so I can easily
> back it off and replace it with this one.

You need to hold off adding this to your tree until after patch 14/27
("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") of this series (or a
modified version of it) reaches Linus' tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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