linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:02:27 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But it turns out to be a kernel bug after all, although not in
> networking. It bisected down to commit e462c448fdc8: "pipe: use event
> aware wakeups".
>
> Anyway, I'll double-check my bisect by doing a revert of that commit
> on top of current -git, but I'm pretty sure the bisect was correct,
> since it did end up pointing to a commit that clearly changed poll
> behavior.

Confirmed. With that commit reverted, gnome-screensaver-dialog works again.

So far I only did a revert, I didn't see exactly _which_ of the wakeup
cases it was. But it's definitely that commit.

                       Linus
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