On Wednesday 01 July 2009 01:39:12 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:14:52PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > * Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > I don't see the patch below in Linus's tree. If it's there, what is the > > > git commit id? > > > > > > > As I pointed out in an earlier reply, this patch is bogus and adds racy > > data structure updates. It should not be merged. > > Ok, dropped. Yes, sorry for not mentioning. I looked at it again, but gave up after a while, I am not able to provide a safe .30 fix for that, risk of making things worse is too high... My last thought was that the main culprit is that .governor() should always be called with the rwsem held. I look at it further and try to ease up things for future kernels, but can't spent that much time on it currently. Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
