ipc msg now works (was Re: ipc-msg broken again on 3.11-rc7?)

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On 09/03/2013 03:47 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi Vineet,
>
> On 09/03/2013 11:51 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> On 09/03/2013 02:53 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>>> The access to msq->q_cbytes is not protected.
>>>
>>> Vineet, could you try to move the test for free space after ipc_lock?
>>> I.e. the lock must not get dropped between testing for free space and
>>> enqueueing the messages.
>> Hmm, the code movement is not trivial. I broke even the simplest of cases (patch
>> attached). This includes the additional change which Linus/Davidlohr had asked for.
> The attached patch should work. Could you try it?
>

Yes this did the trick, now the default config of 100k iterations + 16 processes
runs to completion.

Thx,
-Vineet

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