linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rcu/urgent 0/6] Fixes for RCU/scheduler/irq-threads trainwreck

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:03:05 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com,
	patches@...aro.org, greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu/urgent 0/6] Fixes for RCU/scheduler/irq-threads trainwreck

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:07:32PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 July 2011 21:30:00 Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 19 July 2011 20:17:38 Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Two things to add.  Its possible an eariler error is missing from the log below.  My serial console was missing
>> entries from before '0 and 40ish' and I did think I saw a bunch of FFFFFFFs scroll by eariler...
>>
>> Second, booting with threadirqs and boost enabled in .config with patches 2,5,6 is ok so far.
>
> Patches 3 and 4 resulted in failures?  (Patch 1 certainly did.)

Gaah. Any possibility of getting this resolved soon?

I've merged the pathname lookup fix. I was hoping all the RCU issues
were behind us..

                    Linus
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