Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261974AbVCWVaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:30:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262931AbVCWV3t (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:29:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47018 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261974AbVCWV26 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:28:58 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20050323130724.1aacfcf3.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050323130724.1aacfcf3.akpm@osdl.org> <29204.1111608899@redhat.com> <29285.1111609185@redhat.com> To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, mahalcro@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Keys: Use RCU to manage session keyring pointer X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:28:51 +0000 Message-ID: <30373.1111613331@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 24 Andrew Morton wrote: > David Howells wrote: > > > > The attached patch uses RCU to manage the session keyring pointer in struct > > signal_struct. > > So are these patches dependent upon the > keys-use-rcu-to-manage-session-keyring-pointer work? This patch (2/3) shouldn't be dependent on that. It does extra RCU-age on a different pointer entirely. The other RCU-age patch deals with specific key types. However, the third patch adds extra stuff into keyring support, and so is RCU'd keyrings dependent. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/