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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:10:42 +0100 From: "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@...il.com> To: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, "Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [2.6.27-rc5] inotify_read's ev_mutex vs do_page_fault's mmap_sem... On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2008 14:07, Nick Piggin wrote: >> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 07:03, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> > I observed this locking violation [1] while gnome-panel was loading; >> > this was previously reported at >> > http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0806.3/2881.html . >> > >> > Let me know for more information/config/testing. Thanks! >> >> Thanks for the report. I've attached a patch you could test. It compiles >> (and boots a UML here) but I don't think I've actually tested the inotify >> path at all, so it may explode on you. > > Indeed it was wrong, I messed up the waitqueue handling. This one > survives longer for me... So far, so good with that last patch. I'll continue testing this and follow up if I find any problem. Thanks for the patching, Nick! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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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