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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:03:15 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, Javier Kohen <jkohen@...rs.sourceforge.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David <david@...olicited.net> Subject: Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8 On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:39:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote: > > > > but we only have cpu_clock() from v2.6.23 onwards - so we should not > > > apply the original patch to v2.6.22. (we should not have applied > > > your patch that started the mess to begin with - but that's another > > > matter.) > > > > Well, I can easily back that one out, if that is easier than adding 2 > > more patches to try to fix up the mess here. > > > > Let me know if you feel that would be best. > > i'd leave it alone - doing that we have in essence the softlockup > detector turned off. Reverting to the older version might trigger false > positives that need the new stuff. Ok, I'll see if the current round of patches fix up everyone complaints :) thanks for sending these, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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