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Message-ID: <20130319000505.GA6516@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:05:05 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 28/44] tty: Remove ldsem recursion support
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:01:01PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 16:59 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:44:48PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > > Read lock recursion is no longer required for ldisc references;
> > > remove mechanism.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c | 83 +++++------------------------------------------
> > > include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 2 --
> > > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
> >
> > Wait, why did you add something 3 patches ago, only to remove it here?
> > Why not just smush these patches together in the first place?
>
> >From [PATCH v5 00/44] ldisc patchset...
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 16:44 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > v5 changes:
> >
> > After completing an audit of the recursive use of ldisc
> > references, I discovered the _blocking_ recursive acquisition
> > of ldisc references was limited to line disciplines misusing
> > the tty_perform_flush() function.
> > With that now resolved in,
> > 'tty: Fix recursive deadlock in tty_perform_flush()'
> > the recursion design in ldsem has been removed.
> >
> > The recursion removal is in its own patch,
> > 'tty: Remove ldsem recursion support'
> > to ease review for those that have already reviewed the
> > ldsem implementation.
Ah, ok. Who reviewed the ldsem implementation? I didn't see any other
acks on it, or did I miss them?
thanks,
greg k-h
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