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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xenconsole: Ensure exclusive access to
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:14:26 +0100
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On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 14:29 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:44:57PM +0200, Martin Lucina wrote:
> > On Friday, 24.07.2015 at 17:01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Martin Lucina writes ("[PATCH v3] xenconsole: Ensure exclusive access 
> > > to console using locks"):
> > > > If more than one instance of xenconsole is run against the same 
> > > > DOMID
> > > > then each instance will only get some data. This change ensures
> > > > exclusive access to the console by obtaining an exclusive lock on
> > > > <XEN_LOCK_DIR>/xenconsole.<DOMID>.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > 
> > Can this also make it into the 4.6 release on the grounds of being a 
> > bugfix
> > for xenconsole, or is this change too invasive?
> > 
> 
> I would say this is a bugfix. The locking pattern and implementation are
> well understood. The risk is minimal.
> 
> Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Applied, thanks.