On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Emmanuel Benisty <benist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bu...@hp.com> 
> wrote:
>> The following set of not-thoroughly-tested patches are based on the
>> discussion of holding the ipc lock unnecessarily, such as for permissions
>> and security checks:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/28/540
>>
>> Patch 0/1: Introduces new functions, analogous to ipc_lock and ipc_lock_check
>> in the ipc utility code, allowing to obtain the ipc object without holding 
>> the lock.
>>
>> Patch 0/2: Use the new functions and only acquire the ipc lock when needed.
>
> Not sure how much a work in progress this is but my machine dies
> immediately when I start chromium, crappy mobile phone picture here:
> http://i.imgur.com/S0hfPz3.jpg

We are missing the top of the trace there, so it's hard to be sure -
however, this could well be caused by the if (!out) check (instead of
if (IS_ERR(out)) that I noticed in patch 1/2.

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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