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Message-ID: <20110817230219.GJ2227@zod.bos.redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:02:19 -0400
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.0-git15 Atomic scheduling in pidmap_init
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:37:35PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > > Please see the attached.
> > > >
> > > > Fixed it up quickly to apply on top of -rc2 and it seems to solve the
> > > > problem nicely. Thanks for the patch.
> > >
> > > Good to hear! I guess I should keep it, then. ;-)
> >
> > Hey Paul, were you going to send this to Linus for -rc3? I haven't seen
> > it come across LKML yet.
>
> I might... But does it qualify as a regression? That part of the
> code hasn't changed for some time now.
It's a fix for a problem that is newly surfaced in 3.1. A regression,
likely not since it's been there forever, but new debugging options
uncovered it. I'm pretty sure the -rc stage takes fixes even if they
aren't regressions.
josh
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