Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:48:58 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall |
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 03/29, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:26:26PM +0200, John Kacur wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Cough. I must admit, apart from "urgent" bugfixes the only way I know > > > > is to send the patch to Andrew. > > > > > > > > So I'd suggest to send this patch to akpm. Of course, if you wish I can > > > > forward it, but doesn't matter. > > > > > > > I know that in the past, Thomas was keeping a BKL tree in tip, but not sure if > > > he is still doing so. It seems that Arnd's tree is at least partially > > > experimental, > > > so I wonder if we need to maintain another BKL tree somewhere of fixes > > > that have no > > > obvious maintainer, but are ready to send to Linus for inclusion? > > > > > > I have cc'ed Andrew for this patch, partly for that purpose, so that he > > can take it if he wants to. > > Ah, good, I didn't notice. > > If he doesn't pick this patch now, I'll forward it to him later again ;) > > > But in the worst case these patches are never lost. We don't want to lose > > them. For those that can't go in someone else .35 targeted tree for any reason, > > I can queue them up in mine in a dedicated branch that I'll propose to Linus. > > Frederic, whatever is more convenient to you. > > Oleg. >
I have applied it to:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git bkl/core
Thanks.
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