linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v21 015/100] cgroup freezer: Update stale locking comments

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Message-ID: <20100510210724.GP31830@count0.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 14:07:24 -0700
From:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Cedric Le Goater <legoater@...e.fr>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 015/100] cgroup freezer: Update stale locking
 comments

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:01:45PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2010, Oren Laadan wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/06/2010 03:40 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Saturday 01 May 2010, Oren Laadan wrote:
> > >> From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
> > >>
> > >> Update stale comments regarding locking order and add a little more detail
> > >> so it's easier to follow the locking between the cgroup freezer and the
> > >> power management freezer code.
> > > 
> > > I guess these three patches are for me.
> > > 
> > > Do you want me to handle them?
> > 
> > Yes, please, that would be great.
> 
> However, patches 16 and 17 seem to depend on checkpoint/restart and don't
> appear to be margeable at this point.  Is this correct?

Strictly speaking they do not depend on checkpoint/restart. However, only
checkpoint/restart uses the functionality introduced by those patches so I
think you are correct that they aren't mergeable at this point.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley
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