linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Message-ID: <20091001060501.GA20053@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:05:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, it now looks good in all tests here so Linus please pull the latest 
> > sched-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git sched-fixes-for-linus
> 
> Pulled. I'd also like to see something that actually fails gracefully 
> on cmpxchg() of an unsupported size, though. The silent failure still 
> annoys me.

Yeah. It even works fine on 64-bit which makes it double dangerous.

	Ingo
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