linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 2/3] nohz: fix printk_needs

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Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:07:49 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@...ibm.com>,
	Horst Hartmann <horsth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 2/3] nohz: fix printk_needs_cpu() return value
 on offline cpus

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:32:41PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:11:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:00 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > plain text document attachment (002_printk_needs_cpu.diff)
> > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch fixes a hang observed with 2.6.32 kernels where timers got
> > > enqueued on offline cpus.
[...]
> 
> Is this going to make it into .37, or is it going to wait until .38?

I hope it will go into .37. The same should be true for the
get_next_timer_interrupt() which addresses the same problem.
Peter, Ingo?
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