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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 21:42:46 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru> Cc: Evgeny Budilovsky <budevg@...il.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/lustre: use rcu_dereference to access rcu protected current->real_parent field On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Aug 7, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > >> This is not a critical bug and in the worst case the code here may > >> cause miss of statistics counter increase. > >> This is why I think it is not worth to backport the patch at all. > > You are right, and if this is just for some random "statistics" file, > > can we just delete the whole function? > > I hope not! > This is used all around the client to tally up various operations executed counts. Why would you do that? Why would they care? > The statistic is then used by various userspace monitoring tools. Why not use the in-kernel monitoring tools instead of creating your own? What does userspace do with that information? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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