Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753072Ab1EKRjY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2011 13:39:24 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:37088 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790Ab1EKRjX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2011 13:39:23 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,353,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="434430346" From: Andi Kleen To: John Stultz Cc: LKML , "Ted Ts'o" , KOSAKI Motohiro , David Rientjes , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] comm: Introduce comm_lock seqlock to protect task->comm access References: <1305073386-4810-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1305073386-4810-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:39:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1305073386-4810-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> (John Stultz's message of "Tue, 10 May 2011 17:23:04 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 19 John Stultz writes: > > The next step is to go through and convert all comm accesses to > use get_task_comm(). This is substantial, but can be done bit by > bit, reducing the race windows with each patch. ... and after that rename the field. -Andi -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/