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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	stable@kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix lazy vmap purging (use-after-free error)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:30:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090223123045.aa993f8f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090223201236.GS6751@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:12:36 -0800
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > As I suggested before, please add a new state variable which is private
> > to your subsystem.  That way it remains isolated from other subsystems.
> 
> OK, so my thought would be to have a function call into RCU from either
> init_post() or from rest_init().  This function would then set a variable
> private to RCU.
> 
> Seem reasonable?
> 

If that flag will only be used by one flavour of RCU then that would be
a good way to go.

Otherwise, heck, just make it a global variable with a well-chosen name
and write to it directly.  Simple, perfectly clear and understandable..


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-23 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-20 13:41 Vegard Nossum
2009-02-20 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-20 13:58   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-20 14:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-20 14:18     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-20 15:41       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-20 14:51     ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-20 15:46       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-20 16:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-20 16:44           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-20 17:14             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-20 17:25               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-20 23:51         ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-21  1:40           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-21  9:30             ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-21 17:47               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-21 18:08                 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-21 18:33                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-21 18:37                   ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-22  3:00                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23  5:17                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23  8:24                         ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-23 15:39                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23  9:07                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-23  9:17                           ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-23  9:27                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-23 15:56                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23 13:29                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 16:17                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23 17:20                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-23 19:10                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-23 19:30                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23 19:59                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-23 20:12                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23 20:30                                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-23 19:33                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-23 20:04                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-23 20:09                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-23 20:44                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-23 20:43                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-24  3:23                                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-24  3:37                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-21 19:21                 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-20 16:01       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-20 16:49         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-20 15:56     ` Paul E. McKenney

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