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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:05:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202753136.25604.7.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080211175425.GA28300@kroah.com>

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:54 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:23:18AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > While testing hotplug memory remove against -mm, I noticed
> > that unregister_memory() is not cleaning up /sysfs entries
> > correctly. It also de-references structures after destroying
> > them (luckily in the code which never gets used). So, I cleaned
> > up the code and fixed the extra reference issue.
> > 
> > Could you please include it in -mm ?
> 
> Want me to add this to my tree and send it in my next update for the
> driver core to Linus?
> 
> I'll be glad to do that.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Please do. Only reason I wanted to push through -mm is, I didn't
test this with mainline (since I have patches in -mm for hotplug 
memory remove).

Thanks,
Badari


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11 17:23 Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-11 17:54 ` Greg KH
2008-02-11 18:05   ` Badari Pulavarty [this message]
2008-02-11 19:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-11 20:35   ` Greg KH
2008-02-11 21:32   ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12  8:06     ` Yasunori Goto
2008-02-12 17:22       ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12 20:59         ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-12 21:56           ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12 21:57             ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-12 22:07               ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12 22:15                 ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-12 22:51                   ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12 23:03                   ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-12 23:20                     ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-12 22:06             ` Dave Hansen
2008-02-13  5:09               ` Yasunori Goto
2008-02-13 17:31                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-02-19 19:43 ` patch driver-core-register_memory-unregister_memory-clean-ups-and-bugfix.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh

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