On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, ierdnah wrote:
>
> is this patch better? should i test this too?
You probably should. The patch you've tested is really ugly, and not a fix
at all - it's really just depending on the compiler generating a specific
code sequence that will hide the race. As such, it's a patch I would only
accept in the standard kernel as an absolute last resort.
In contrast, the second patch I tested may actually _fix_ the race.
The fact that the first patch makes the oops go away is a good thing,
though: it shows that your oops really was due to that small race window,
and as such it helps validate that it wasn't anything else.
Thanks,
Linus
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