linux-kernel - Re: [080/119] sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks

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Message-ID: <20091208175410.GA27061@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:54:10 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [080/119] sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu
 masks

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:09:51PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:30:56 am Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> > 
> > commit 49557e620339cb134127b5bfbcfecc06b77d0232 upstream.
> > 
> > I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit,
> > because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask
> > wasn't zeroed).
> 
> Please also include "bdddd2963c0264c56f18043f6fa829d3c1d3d1c0"
> (sched: Fix isolcpus boot option) from Linus' tree which fixes
> a regression this introduces.

Now queued up.

thanks,

greg k-h
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