linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] Documentation/no_hz: Remove description that states boot CPU cannot be nohz

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Message-ID: <20250228-dugong-of-incredible-piety-5e4b88@krishanthj>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:14:17 +0530
From: Krishanth Jagaduri <krishanth.jagaduri@...y.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Atsushi Ochiai <Atsushi.Ochiai@...y.com>,
        Daniel Palmer <Daniel.Palmer@...y.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@...hat.com>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] Documentation/no_hz: Remove description that
 states boot CPU cannot be nohz_full

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 10:07:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Krishanth Jagaduri <Krishanth.Jagaduri@...y.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Could we fix only the document portion in stable kernels 5.4+ that
> > mentions boot CPU cannot be nohz_full?
> 
> So you are requesting a partial backport to -stable of the 
> Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst chunk of 5097cbcb38e6?
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

Thank you for checking. Yes, you are right.
I feel it would be helpful to users of LTS trees if this misleading information
in the document can be fixed.

Best regards,
Krishanth