linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <20111018180751.GA18590@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:07:51 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> 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?

Yeah, we have it in -tip already and it was tested all day, lemme 
cook up a pull request to not hold up the v3.1 release much longer..

Thanks,

	Ingo
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