linux-kernel - Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

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Date:	Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:02:23 -0800
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@...enkerkhof.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	MINOURA Makoto <minoura@...inux.co.jp>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, stable@...nel.org,
	Hervé Commowick <hcommowick@...sec.fr>,
	Rand@...per.es, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.32.21 - uptime related crashes?

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 15:45 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:25:45AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:44:30PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > > The softlockup false positive issue should have been fixed by Peter's
> > > "x86, intel: Don't mark sched_clock() as stable" below. But I'm not
> > > seeing it upstream.  Peter, is this still the right fix?
> > 
> > I've not seen any other one proposed, and both you and Peter appeared
> > to like it. I understood that Ingo was waiting for the merge window to
> > submit it and I think that it simply got lost.
> > 
> > Ingo, can you confirm ?
> 
> I'm totally confused here, what's the status of this, and what exactly
> is the patch?

Ingo has the fix from Salman queued in -tip, but I'm not sure why its
not been pushed to Linus yet.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git;a=commit;h=4cecf6d401a01d054afc1e5f605bcbfe553cb9b9

thanks
-john

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