Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:15:39 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions |
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Andrew Morton wrote: >> This patchset contains three minimal backports of fixes in -mm. With >> all patches in the patchset and sysfs-races.patch applied, kernel >> survived ~20 hours of stress test without any problem. > > So these are being proposed for 2.6.22?
Yeap.
> I do wonder about Rafael's bug which he bisected down to > gregkh-driver-sysfs-use-singly-linked-list-for-sysfs_dirent-tree.patch. > > If that won't be a problem in this patchset then I spose it's probably best > to go ahead with a 2.6.22 merge, but it's more a Greg thing than a me > thing.
I'm currently debugging that and it's irrelevant to these fixes. The bug is introduced far after the fixes.
> I don't have a tree to merge these patches into, unless I drop all the > patches which are in Greg's tree. > > Greg, can I leave it up to you to decide how we are to proceed here?
I can rebase all sysfs patches in -mm on top of linus#master + these fixes if necessary.
Thanks.
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