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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:39:35 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>, devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, Shankar Brahadeeswaran <shankoo77@...il.com>, Bjorn Bringert <bringert@...gle.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>, Anjana V Kumar <anjanavk12@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] ashmem: Fix ashmem_shrink deadlock. On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:22:18AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Rientjes wrote: > > > > Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed into the > > > shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. This is > > > fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com> > > > > Any reason not to send this to stable@...r.kernel.org if it fixes an > > observable deadlock? (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I > > don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.) > > > > This was sent separately to stable@...r.kernel.org before being merged > into Linus's tree . Greg, could this be queued up for 3.10 with a cc to > stable@...r.kernel.org? Yes, I'll handle all of this properly, thanks. greg k-h -- 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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