Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-01 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 07:17:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:30:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Hi Al, > > > > Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and > > older kernels? Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make > > it so that thi

Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-07-20 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:30:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Hi Al, > > Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and > older kernels? Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make > it so that this can't be hit in older kernels? Needed since 2.6.35 or so (earlier

Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-07-20 Thread Greg KH
Hi Al, Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and older kernels? Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make it so that this can't be hit in older kernels? thanks, greg k-h On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:34:27PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb