linux-kernel - Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:30:27 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, David <david@...olicited.net>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, gregkh@...e.de,
	Javier Kohen <jkohen@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

On 11/17/2007 07:55 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> 
>> Great, thanks for tracking this down.
>>
>> Ingo, this corrisponds to changeset 
>> a115d5caca1a2905ba7a32b408a6042b20179aaa in mainline.  Is that patch 
>> incorrect?  Should this patch in the -stable tree be reverted?
> 
> hm, there are no such problems in .24 and the cpu_clock() and other 
> fixes i did were not picked up. Find the missing fixes below. They 
> should work just fine in .23 as it has the cpu_clock() functionality 
> too.
> 
> [ NOTE: the most robust thing is to make the .23 version match the .24
>   version of kernel/softlockup.c, so i included two other harmless
>   changes in this diff as well. ]
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> ----------->
> commit a5f2ce3c6024a5bb895647b6bd88ecae5001020a
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Date:   Tue Oct 16 23:26:08 2007 -0700
> 
> commit 43581a10075492445f65234384210492ff333eba
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Date:   Tue Oct 16 23:26:08 2007 -0700

Those are just cosmetic / cleanup changes.

Don't you need commit a3b13c23f186ecb57204580cc1f2dbe9c284953a ??
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