From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751240AbWFXIP7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:15:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbWFXIP7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:15:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45451 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933259AbWFXIP5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:15:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:15:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Shailabh Nagar Cc: jlan@sgi.com, balbir@in.ibm.com, csturtiv@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Revised locking for taskstats interface Message-Id: <20060624011551.1bcd4385.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <449CEB7C.3060004@watson.ibm.com> References: <449C2A44.9000206@watson.ibm.com> <20060623233245.77f365bb.akpm@osdl.org> <449CEB7C.3060004@watson.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:36:28 -0400 Shailabh Nagar wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:52:04 -0400 > >Shailabh Nagar 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