On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:22:18AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > > Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed 
> > > into the
> > > shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. 
> > > This is
> > > fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Any reason not to send this to [email protected] if it fixes an 
> > observable deadlock?  (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I 
> > don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.)
> > 
> 
> This was sent separately to [email protected] before being merged 
> into Linus's tree .  Greg, could this be queued up for 3.10 with a cc to 
> [email protected]?

Yes, I'll handle all of this properly, thanks.

greg k-h
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