linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond

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Message-ID: <20150113184301.GO9719@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:43:01 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before
 poking RCU

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:17:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Calvin Owens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01/07 at 20:53 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > Should this go to stable as well? It is technically a regression, albeit
> > > > a rather long-standing one.
> > > 
> > > Your original patch could go into stable, but my updated version depends
> > > on functionality not present before 3.20.
> > 
> > Right. I'll wait until 3.20-rc1, and then I'll send the original to
> > stable with a reference to the commit.
> 
> We better do that in two steps:
> 
>    1) The original patch tagged for stable
>    2) Pauls version as a delta patch
> 
> Can one of you please provide such a series?

Carl, could you please send me the original with the proper -stable
reference?  I will then queue that one and rebase mine on top of it.

							Thanx, Paul

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