linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler changes for v4.13

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Message-ID: <20170710084533.bl6znx5g2owalbx6@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:45:33 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler changes for v4.13


* Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/2017 01:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Linus,
> > 
> > Please pull the latest sched-core-for-linus git tree from:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-core-for-linus
> > 
> >    # HEAD: 72298e5c92c50edd8cb7cfda4519483ce65fa166 sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code
> > 
> > The main changes in this cycle were:
> > 
> >  - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler debug checks 
> >    earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and sporadically deadly bugs into
> >    nice, deterministic splats. Fix some of the splats that triggered.
> >    (Thomas Gleixner)
> > 
> >  - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and topology 
> >    code (Peter Zijlstra)
> > 
> >  - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code history: this 
> >    time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't get much feedback on these 
> >    renaming patches, and we can still easily change any names I might have 
> >    misplaced, so if anyone hates a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.)
> >    (Ingo Molnar)
> 
> This commit ac6424b981bce1c4bc55675c6ce11bfe1bbfa64f ("sched/wait:
> Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t") ends up renaming the
> autofs_packet_missing, autofs_packet_expire_multi and autofs_v5_packet
> member previously named wait_queue_entry to wait_queue_entry_token. Was
> it intentional to force an user space build breakage when building
> against v4.13-rc headers for autofs headers?

Nope - mind sending a tested patch?

Thanks,

	Ingo