linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc6] sched, kvm: fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt

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Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:00:49 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc6] sched, kvm: fix race condition involving
 sched_in_preempt_notifers


* Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:

> On 11/30/2009 11:09 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>   but we want to do sched.c changes via
> >>>the scheduler tree.
> >So, this one was a bust.  Given that the only platform which might
> >have been affected by the original bug is ia64 and it's very unlikely
> >to happen.  I think reverting this from sched/urgent would be the
> >right thing to do at this point if the branch is headed for another
> >push to Linus.  Avi, what do you think?
> 
> I agree.

that sched/urgent commit is not queued up for 2.6.32 (Linus indicated 
there wont be an -rc9), it spills over to the 2.6.33 merge window.

	Ingo
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