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Message-ID: <20070612005429.GA11388@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:54:29 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cebbert@...hat.com,
sandeen@...hat.com, maneesh@...ibm.com, cs@...uila.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:15:39PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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?
Ok, I'll test them out, and if look sane pass them to Linus.
> I can rebase all sysfs patches in -mm on top of linus#master + these
> fixes if necessary.
Yeah, I'll need that if these look good enough, otherwise my tree will
stop applying :)
Give me some time tonight to do this...
thanks,
greg k-h
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