linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1110181724560.3240@ionos>
Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:26:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: cputimer: Cure lock inversion
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> > Date: Mon Oct 17 11:50:30 CEST 2011
> >
> > There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock; notably
> > the two callchains involved are:
> 
> Thanks, looks nice and small. Simon - can you check that this works for you?
> 
> Thomas/Ingo - once confirmed by Simon, should I take it directly or
> will this come through your trees?

I have it queued in timers/urgent and run it through testing at the
moment. Will send a pull request once confirmed.

Thanks,

	tglx

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