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

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Message-ID: <20071120060808.GG20436@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:08:08 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
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


* Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> wrote:

> 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 ??

yes:

> > [...] the cpu_clock() and other fixes i did were not picked up.

i just forgot to attach the cpu_clock() changes - they are in a3b13c23.

	Ingo
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