linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall

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Message-ID: <20100329183502.GA17842@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:35:02 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall

On 03/29, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:26:26PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Cough. I must admit, apart from "urgent" bugfixes the only way I know
> > > is to send the patch to Andrew.
> > >
> > > So I'd suggest to send this patch to akpm. Of course, if you wish I can
> > > forward it, but doesn't matter.
> > >
> > I know that in the past, Thomas was keeping a BKL tree in tip, but not sure if
> > he is still doing so. It seems that Arnd's tree is at least partially
> > experimental,
> > so I wonder if we need to maintain another BKL tree somewhere of fixes
> > that have no
> > obvious maintainer, but are ready to send to Linus for inclusion?
>
>
> I have cc'ed Andrew for this patch, partly for that purpose, so that he
> can take it if he wants to.

Ah, good, I didn't notice.

If he doesn't pick this patch now, I'll forward it to him later again ;)

> But in the worst case these patches are never lost. We don't want to lose
> them. For those that can't go in someone else .35 targeted tree for any reason,
> I can queue them up in mine in a dedicated branch that I'll propose to Linus.

Frederic, whatever is more convenient to you.

Oleg.

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