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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Additional RCU fixes for 2.6.34
On Thu, May 06 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 06 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, Ingo,
> > > >
> > > > Here are three more RCU-lockdep fixes for 2.6.34:
> > > >
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git rcu/urgent
> > > >
> > > > Thanx, Paul
> > > >
> > > > ------------------>
> > > > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> (1)
> > > > blk-cgroup: Fix RCU correctness warning in cfq_init_queue()
> > > >
> > > > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (2)
> > > > vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc access
> > > > memcg: css_id() must be called under rcu_read_lock()
> > > >
> > > > block/cfq-iosched.c | 2 ++
> > > > include/linux/fdtable.h | 3 ++-
> > > > include/linux/rcupdate.h | 11 +++++++++++
> > > > kernel/rcupdate.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > > > mm/memcontrol.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
> > > > 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Pulled, thanks Paul!
> > >
> > > Jens, is that blk-cgroup fix from Vivek fine to you via this route?
> >
> > Sure, I did think it was a bit odd to funnel it through that route, but it's
> > no big deal.
>
> I havent pushed the tree out yet, wanted to wait for your feedback before
> doing anything permanent. You can still apply it to the block tree.
>
> You were Cc:-ed 3 days ago to this patch, when RCU fixes got posted. These are
> basically the leftover PROVE_RCU fix patches that didnt get picked up by
> subsystem trees.

Yes I read it then, and Paul said he'd applied it. So I didn't touch it,
it was trivial enough that the path to the kernel wasn't that big of a
problem. And it didn't cause me any merge issues, so no harm done.

I can easily pull it in since I have a fix or two for .34 left yet, but
if you already have it stashed and ready to submit, lets just leave it
there.

--
Jens Axboe



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