linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED

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Message-ID: <1386570586.5159.43.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:29:46 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code

On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 14:26 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Subject: sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code
> 
> While hunting a preemption issue with Alexander, Ben noticed that the
> currently generic PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED stuff is horribly broken for
> load-store architectures.

Hi Peter !

Are you sending this to Linus ? From what I can tell the bug is still
upstream ...

Cheers,
Ben.


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