Re: [Patch] Revised locking for taskstats interface

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:28 -0400
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:52:04 -0400
> >Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Convert locking used within taskstats interface and delay accounting
> >>code to be more fine-grained.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This patch is based on
> >per-task-delay-accounting-taskstats-interface-fix-exit-race-in-per-task-delay-accounting.patch,
> >which I've noted as `nacked' but didn't drop.
> >
> >So I guess that's now un-nacked?
> >  
> >
> Not in intent. This patch reverses all the changes made by that patch. 
> So effectively the previous patch is still nacked.
> However, I based this patch on the previous one because you hadn't 
> dropped the latter (so we're going round in circles !)
> 
> How about  I just send one patch that covers the whole locking thing ?
> 

Is OK - I'll concatenate these:

per-task-delay-accounting-taskstats-interface-fix-exit-race-in-per-task-delay-accounting.patch
per-task-delay-accounting-delay-accounting-usage-of-taskstats-interface.patch
per-task-delay-accounting-delay-accounting-usage-of-taskstats-interface-use-portable-cputime-api-in-__delayacct_add_tsk.patch
per-task-delay-accounting-delay-accounting-usage-of-taskstats-interface-fix-return-value-of-delayacct_add_tsk.patch
revised-locking-for-taskstats-interface.patch

into a single

per-task-delay-accounting-delay-accounting-usage-of-taskstats-interface.patch