Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932341AbWIKQ61 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:58:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932348AbWIKQ61 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:58:27 -0400 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:40388 "EHLO gwia-smtp.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932341AbWIKQ60 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:58:26 -0400 From: Jean Delvare Organization: SUSE To: Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] proc: bye bye tasklist_lock Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:19:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060909221839.GA141@oleg> In-Reply-To: <20060909221839.GA141@oleg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609111319.42132.jdelvare@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 20 Hi Oleg, On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:18, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > fs/proc/ does not use tasklist_lock anymore. > > These patches are simple enough and do not depend on each other. > The only problem I don't know how to really test them. Just to make sure I understand what it is all about: Is there a relation between this patchset and the recent patch from Eric fixing the readdir(/proc) race? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - 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/