Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:58:04 +0300 | From | Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc4] sysfs: fix race conditions |
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*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Tejun Heo 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. >
Seriously, do you think adding a few sleeps fixes anything? It just makes it harder to happen, and even harder to debug, so this is no good. Race condition are fixed by proper locking, ordering and so on.
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