The patch titled snsc: switch from force_sig to kill_proc has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is snsc-switch-from-force_sig-to-kill_proc.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: snsc: switch from force_sig to kill_proc From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Currently the snsc driver uses force_sig to send init a SIGPWR when the system overheats. This patch switches it to kill_proc instead which has the following advantages: (1) gets rid of one of the last remaining tasklist_lock users in modular code (2) simplifies the snsc code significantly The downside is that an init implementation could in theory block SIGPWR and it would not get delivered. The sysvinit code used by all major distributions doesn't do this and blocking this signal in init would be a rather stupid thing to do. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/snsc_event.c | 15 +-------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/snsc_event.c~snsc-switch-from-force_sig-to-kill_proc drivers/char/snsc_event.c --- a/drivers/char/snsc_event.c~snsc-switch-from-force_sig-to-kill_proc +++ a/drivers/char/snsc_event.c @@ -220,20 +220,7 @@ scdrv_dispatch_event(char *event, int le " Sending SIGPWR to init...\n"); /* give a SIGPWR signal to init proc */ - - /* first find init's task */ - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - for_each_process(p) { - if (p->pid == 1) - break; - } - if (p) { - force_sig(SIGPWR, p); - } else { - printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to signal init!\n"); - snsc_shutting_down = 0; /* so can try again (?) */ - } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + kill_proc(1, SIGPWR, 0); } else { /* print to system log */ printk("%s|$(0x%x)%s\n", severity, esp_code, desc); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are origin.patch git-scsi-rc-fixes.patch areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch add-address_space_operationsbatch_write.patch add-address_space_operationsbatch_write-fix.patch vectorize-aio_read-aio_write-fileop-methods.patch remove-readv-writev-methods-and-use-aio_read-aio_write.patch streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap.patch task-watchers-task-watchers.patch ecryptfs-mmap-operations.patch ecryptfs-dont-muck-with-the-existing-nameidata-structures.patch streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap-ecryptfs.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html