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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:28:58 +0530 From: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> CC: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rsa@...ibm.com, apw@...dowen.org, balbir@...ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kobject changes broken with hvcs driver on powerpc Greg KH wrote: >> Why release the spinlock here? It's done after the count is incremented. >> This patch does not seem correct. > > Doh, you are correct, I'll make sure that I fix this up before applying > it. > > thanks, > > greg k-h Hi, Greg, I ran some tests with the fixed up version of this patch and the system fails to come up. I see the WARN_ON in lib/kref.c:33 and the system fails to boot beyond that point. I have not yet found time to debug it though. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- 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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