linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] core fixes

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:13:24 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [git pull] core fixes

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 08:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Linus,
>
> Please pull the latest core-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> core-fixes-for-linus
>
> 90% of the flux comes from lockdep - and most of the fixes are for
> long-standing bugs/weaknesses. (like the quadratic overhead bug David
> uncovered and fixed)
>
> The only non-strictly bugfix change is:
>
>    # f82b217: lockdep: shrink held_lock structure
>
> but Peter wrote and tested/improved that one together with other patches
> so i decided against extracting the commit artificially which would have
> been pretty invasive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Ingo
>
> ------------------>
> Dave Jones (1):
>       lockdep: shrink held_lock structure
>
> David Miller (2):
>       lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal
>       debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages.
>
> Ingo Molnar (2):
>       lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() =>
> lock_map_[acquire|release]() lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS
>
> Nick Piggin (1):
>       generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in
> smp_call_function_mask()

I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen
a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have
been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function
code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging?
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