The patch titled gru: add comments raised in previous code reviews has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: gru: add comments raised in previous code reviews From: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> Add comments from previous code reviews. The comments help explain some of the more esoteric aspects of the driver. Move a free() to the other side of an unlock. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c | 5 +++++ drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c~gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c~gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews +++ a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c @@ -733,6 +733,11 @@ long gru_get_gseg_statistics(unsigned lo if (copy_from_user(&req, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(req))) return -EFAULT; + /* + * The library creates arrays of contexts for threaded programs. + * If no gts exists in the array, the context has never been used & all + * statistics are implicitly 0. + */ gts = gru_find_lock_gts(req.gseg); if (gts) { memcpy(&req.stats, >s->ustats, sizeof(gts->ustats)); diff -puN drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c~gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c~gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews +++ a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c @@ -200,13 +200,15 @@ static int gru_free_kernel_contexts(void bs = gru_base[bid]; if (!bs) continue; + + /* Ignore busy contexts. Don't want to block here. */ if (down_write_trylock(&bs->bs_kgts_sema)) { kgts = bs->bs_kgts; if (kgts && kgts->ts_gru) gru_unload_context(kgts, 0); - kfree(kgts); bs->bs_kgts = NULL; up_write(&bs->bs_kgts_sema); + kfree(kgts); } else { ret++; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from steiner@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch x86-uv-introduce-a-means-to-translate-from-gpa-socket_paddr.patch x86-uv-xpc-needs-to-provide-an-abstraction-for-uv_gpa.patch x86-uv-introduce-uv_gpa_is_mmr.patch x86-uv-implement-a-gru_read_gpa-kernel-function.patch x86-uv-update-xpc-to-handle-updated-bios-interface.patch x86-uv-xpc-null-deref-when-mesq-becomes-empty.patch x86-uv-xpc_make_first_contact-hang-due-to-not-accepting-active-state.patch x86-uv-xpc-receive-message-reuse-triggers-invalid-bug_on.patch gru-initial-gru-based-on-blade-topology.patch gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews.patch gru-fix-istatus-race-in-gru-tlb-dropin.patch gru-handle-blades-without-memory.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-1.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-2.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-3.patch gru-fix-bug-in-module-unload.patch gru-improve-messages-for-malfunctioning-grus.patch gru-support-64-bit-gru-addresses.patch gru-handle-failures-to-mmu_notifier_register.patch gru-add-debug-option-for-cache-flushing.patch gru-add-test-for-gru_copy_gpa.patch gru-check-for-valid-vma.patch gru-fix-prefetch-and-speculation-bugs.patch gru-update-irq-infrastructure.patch gru-add-additional-gru-statistics.patch gru-expicitly-set-instruction-status-to-active.patch gru-preload-tlb-for-bcopy-instructions.patch gru-fix-bug-in-exception-handling.patch gru-add-symbolic-names-for-gru-error-code.patch gru-remove-stray-local_irq_enable.patch gru-check-for-correct-gru-chiplet-assignment.patch gru-update-gru-structures-to-match-latest-hardware-spec.patch gru-fix-bug-in-allocation-of-kernel-contexts.patch gru-add-hugepage-support.patch gru-fix-gru-interrupt-race-at-deallocate.patch gru-improve-gru-tlb-dropin-statistics.patch gru-update-driver-version-number.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