linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] nohz: A few updates

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Message-ID: <20130710085113.GA24884@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:51:13 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anish Singh <anish198519851985@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] nohz: A few updates


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> Please pull the timers/core branch that can be found at:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> 	timers/core
> 
> Note that "watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks" is a temporary
> solution to solve the issue with the watchdog that prevents the tick from
> stopping. This is to make sure that 3.11 doesn't have that problem as several
> people complained about it.
> 
> A proper and longer term solution has been proposed by Peterz:
> 
> 	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130618103632.GO3204@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
> 
> I plan to work on it. But since I'll be off next week, I prefer to have
> at least a working temporary solution before the next merge window.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Frederic
> ---
> 
> Frederic Weisbecker (4):
>       watchdog: Register / unregister watchdog kthreads on sysctl control
>       watchdog: Rename confusing state variable
>       watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks
>       nohz: Remove obsolete check for full dynticks CPUs to be RCU nocbs
> 
> Steven Rostedt (1):
>       nohz: Warn if the machine can not perform nohz_full
> 
> 
>  include/linux/nmi.h      |    2 +-
>  kernel/sysctl.c          |    4 +-
>  kernel/time/tick-sched.c |   15 ++----
>  kernel/watchdog.c        |  113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Frederic!

	Ingo
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