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Date:	Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:59:55 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Alexander Z Lam <azl@...gle.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear
 "d_subdirs"->i_private

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:28 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (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 just ran them all individually applied through my ftrace stress tests.
All passed, thus they are as bisectible as I would like them to be.

-- Steve


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