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Message-Id: <20140515162412.51355f308c34768ad08c0e2f@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2014 16:24:12 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	riel@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	rdunlap@...radead.org, richard@....at, umgwanakikbuti@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysrq,rcu: suppress RCU stall warnings while sysrq
 runs

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:06:36 -0400 riel@...hat.com wrote:

> From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> 
> Some sysrq handlers can run for a long time, because they dump a lot
> of data onto a serial console. Having RCU stall warnings pop up in
> the middle of them only makes the problem worse.
> 
> This patch temporarily disables RCU stall warnings while a sysrq
> request is handled.
>
> ...
>
>  drivers/tty/sysrq.c      |  3 +++
>  include/linux/rcupdate.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>  kernel/rcu/update.c      | 12 ++++++++++++

OK, what's going on here.  Someone (of, I suspect, a Paulish nature)
has plucked out the rcu parts of this patch, put them in linux-next and
omitted the drivers/tty part.  Very tricky!


I have done the opposite and have staged two patches against linux-next:

http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/sysrq-rcu-ify-__handle_sysrq.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/sysrqrcu-suppress-rcu-stall-warnings-while-sysrq-runs.patch

Please check, review, comment, etc.
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