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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: Shankar Brahadeeswaran <shankoo77@gmail.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Bringert <bringert@google.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Anjana V Kumar <anjanavk12@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] staging: android: ashmem: Deadlock during ashmem_shrink
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:33:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130430233334.GA32383@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG6tG3ybiaSRt15s63Dz_33_-jsrrBAamOAV_t7QOW0N_zWueg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:32:54PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > After this experiment, I too think that this patch (returning from
> > ashmem_shrink if the lock is not available) is good enough and does
> > not seem to have any major side effects.
> >
> > PS: Any plans of submitting this patch formally?
> 
> Sure. Greg? :)

I'll be glad to take it if you resend it in a format that I can apply it
in :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-30 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJsYZ5kk=J_Sc7w5dbMbkWWv8dXEU0ojKjEKNqH=Q6Tf2f7mQg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-22 14:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-04-22 14:43   ` Robert Love
2013-04-23 16:20     ` Shankar Brahadeeswaran
2013-04-23 17:24       ` Robert Love
2013-04-25 13:54         ` Shankar Brahadeeswaran
2013-04-25 14:13           ` Shankar Brahadeeswaran
2013-04-25 15:05           ` Robert Love
2013-04-30 13:29             ` Shankar Brahadeeswaran
2013-04-30 22:32               ` Robert Love
2013-04-30 23:33                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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