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Message-Id: <1284698766.8721.32.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:46:06 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Wright <john.wright@...com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32.y stable kernel regression with taskset

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:35 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 09/16/2010 07:42 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 05:45:12AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> >>> git bisect report:
> >>>
> >>> c6fc81afa2d7ef2f775e48672693d8a0a8a7325d is the first bad commit
> >>> commit c6fc81afa2d7ef2f775e48672693d8a0a8a7325d
> >>> Author: John Wright <john.wright@...com>
> >>> Date:   Tue Apr 13 16:55:37 2010 -0600
> >>>
> >>>     sched: Fix a race between ttwu() and migrate_task()
> >>
> >> Known issue.  There's a sched series for 32-stable in the pipeline.
> > 
> > Yes, sorry, I'm working my way through to them, hope to have them
> > finished and applied soon.
> > 
> 
> why not just revert that patch?

Because it exists.  If revert would fix the problem, neither the commit
in question nor the upstream commit it mentions would exist.

	-Mike

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