linux-kernel - Re: sched: Fix signedness bug in yield

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Message-ID: <CAKocOOP5kV=dBr9eya3DtysggSHHpTfJfpPbpyMNf4==_H23+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:48 -0700
From:	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
To:	Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Raghavendra KT
<raghavendra.kt.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> * Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
>>> <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> wrote:
>>> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=c3c186403c6abd32e719f005f0af950155a9e54d
>>> > Commit:     c3c186403c6abd32e719f005f0af950155a9e54d
>>> > Parent:     e0a79f529d5ba2507486d498b25da40911d95cf6
>>> > Author:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>>> > AuthorDate: Tue Feb 5 14:37:51 2013 +0300
>>> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>>> > CommitDate: Tue Feb 5 12:59:29 2013 +0100
>>> >
>>> >     sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
>>> >
>>> >     In 7b270f6099 "sched: Bail out of yield_to when source and
>>> >     target runqueue has one task" we changed this to store -ESRCH so
>>> >     it needs to be signed.
>>>
>>> Dan, Ingo,
>>>
>>> I can't find the 7b270f6099 "sched: Bail out of yield_to when
>>> source and target runqueue has one task" in the latest Linus's
>>> git. Am I missing something.
>>>
>>> The current kenel/sched/core.c doesn't have the code from the
>>> associated patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2016651/
>>
>> As per the lkml discussion that one was supposed to go upstream
>> via the KVM tree. Marcelo?
>>
>
> It is going via KVM tree. (as per Gleb's pull request)

Thanks. Do you see these two commits as stable release candidates?

-- Shuah
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