Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous

From	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous
Date	2017-06-28 16:50 +0200
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Tejun Heo wrote:

> And we have to weight that against the possibility of breakage from
> the backport, however low it may be, right?  I'm not strongly
> convinced either way on this one and AFAICS the slub sysfs files there
> are mostly for debugging, so we'd be risking breakage in a way more
> common path (kmem_cache destruction) to avoid unlikely deadlock with a
> debug facility.  I think -stable backports should be conservative and
> justified as breaking things through -stable undermines the whole
> thing.

The sysfs files are mainly used for reporting (the "slabinfo" tool
accesses these files f.e.)

But given the high rate of breakage of sysfs related patches: Lets just
skip stable for now.

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[PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-06-20 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-06-21 00:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-06-21 00:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-06-21 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-06-21 00:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-06-28 16:50 +0200

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