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Message-ID: <466CE88B.2050803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:15:39 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com, cebbert@...hat.com, sandeen@...hat.com, maneesh@...ibm.com, cs@...uila.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions Andrew Morton wrote: >> This patchset contains three minimal backports of fixes in -mm. With >> all patches in the patchset and sysfs-races.patch applied, kernel >> survived ~20 hours of stress test without any problem. > > So these are being proposed for 2.6.22? Yeap. > I do wonder about Rafael's bug which he bisected down to > gregkh-driver-sysfs-use-singly-linked-list-for-sysfs_dirent-tree.patch. > > If that won't be a problem in this patchset then I spose it's probably best > to go ahead with a 2.6.22 merge, but it's more a Greg thing than a me > thing. I'm currently debugging that and it's irrelevant to these fixes. The bug is introduced far after the fixes. > I don't have a tree to merge these patches into, unless I drop all the > patches which are in Greg's tree. > > Greg, can I leave it up to you to decide how we are to proceed here? I can rebase all sysfs patches in -mm on top of linus#master + these fixes if necessary. Thanks. -- tejun - 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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