lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <20160524162207.GB3354@mtj.duckdns.org> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:22:07 -0400 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, hofrat@...dl.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] locking: Annotate spin_unlock_wait() users Hello, On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:17:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So don't talk about "acquire". And most certainly don't talk about > "control dependencies". Not if we end up having things like *drivers* > using this like in this example libata. A delta but that particular libata usage is probably not needed now. The path was used while libata was gradually adding error handlers to the low level drivers. I don't think we don't have any left w/o one at this point. I'll verify and get rid of that usage. Thanks. -- tejun
Powered by blists - more mailing lists