linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] time/tick-broadcast: Fix tick_broadcast

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Message-ID: <20190628121745.GP26519@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:17:45 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time/tick-broadcast: Fix tick_broadcast_offline()
 lockdep complaint

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 09:37:12AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:52:38AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Very well, the commit is as shown below.  This is on current -rcu,
> > but feel free to take it if you would like, Peter.  Just let me know
> > and I will mark it so that I don't push it myself.  (I need to keep
> > it in -rcu until I rebase onto a version of mainline that contains
> > it so as to avoid spurious rcutorture failures.)
> 
> Looks good. I'll pick it up and then we need to take care when all lands
> in tip.

Thank you!

My instance of the patch is in a part of the -rcu tree that won't hit
-tip until after v5.3-rc5, so there is a good chance that the -tip
sequencing will Just Work.  Stranger things have happened.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul