linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ipc/sem.c: fix lockup, restore FIFO behavior

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Message-ID: <1369539830.5893.23.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date:	Sun, 26 May 2013 05:43:50 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
To:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Cc:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, hhuang@...hat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipc/sem.c: fix lockup, restore FIFO behavior

On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 05:19 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 22:00 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> > P.S.:
> > Btw, I found some code that uses a semop with 2 ops:
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fapis%2Fapiexusmem.htm
> 
> I recently analyzed rt traces containing 9 ops.

P.S. I dearly hope your patch flies, for otherwise I shall be sweating
frickin' bullets when the application that does that meets a new kernel.

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