Re: [patch 021/104] lib/idr.c: fix rcu related race with idr_find

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 17:52:19 EST




On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> Revert.
>
> This caused problems in the F10 kernel with idr, the drm device alloc
> went all wierd,
> it might be a drm bug but changing this code triggers it and so it
> isn't really "stable"

Well, maybe it should be reverted in mainlne too, then?

Linus
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