linux-kernel - Re: Re: msgrcv: use freezable blocking call

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2015 09:35:55 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yn.gaur@...sung.com>,
	AJEET YADAV <ajeet.y@...sung.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: msgrcv: use freezable blocking call

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:18:46AM +0000, Maninder Singh wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> Thanks for making new patch, Actually there is some problem with our mail editor.
> It changes tabs with spaces and corrupts the patch, we are solving the same at our end.
> Thats why i am sending you signed -off by only for both patches.

Sort it and resend, no real great hurry with these patches, right?

> 1. For msgrcv: use freezable blocking call
> Signed-off-by: Yogesh Gaur <yn.gaur@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Manjeet Pawar <manjeet.p@...sung.com>

Did you really pass around that patch through 3 people or did it take
all three of you to modify those two lines?

Should some of those SoBs be a reviewed-by perhaps?


> ----> For Peter's Review comment:- This is what, no why mentioned
> 
> This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
> it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
> that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
> during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
> blocked.

Please put such things in the Changelog so that we can see you've
thought about things.
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