Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:06:44 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: 3.0-git15 Atomic scheduling in pidmap_init |
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:02:19PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:37:35PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > > > > Please see the attached. > > > > > > > > > > Fixed it up quickly to apply on top of -rc2 and it seems to solve the > > > > > problem nicely. Thanks for the patch. > > > > > > > > Good to hear! I guess I should keep it, then. ;-) > > > > > > Hey Paul, were you going to send this to Linus for -rc3? I haven't seen > > > it come across LKML yet. > > > > I might... But does it qualify as a regression? That part of the > > code hasn't changed for some time now. > > It's a fix for a problem that is newly surfaced in 3.1. A regression, > likely not since it's been there forever, but new debugging options > uncovered it. I'm pretty sure the -rc stage takes fixes even if they > aren't regressions.
Nope, after -rc1 only regressions fixes are taken (most of the time).
> > josh
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