On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/24/2013 07:05 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Davidlohr Bueso >> <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> This patch converts the IPC RCU header's reference counter to atomic_t. >>> The return of >>> ipc_rcu_getref() is modified to inform the callers if it actually >>> succeeded. >>> >>> Now all callers return -EIDRM upon failure and abort the current >>> operation. Two exceptions are >>> in semaphore code where sem_getref_and_unlock() and sem_getref() trigger >>> a warning but proceed >>> to freeing up any held locks. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx> >>> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> CC: Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> CC: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> >>> CC: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@xxxxxxxxx> >>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> Missing my Reported-by ...! > > >> ...so please add also my Tested-by! > > > And my ax! > > I mean ... Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> FWIW, my machine survived building chromium with this patch instead of Linus'. Thanks. -- Emmanuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
