From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753631AbZK3KDc (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:03:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753414AbZK3KDc (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:03:32 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:59701 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753258AbZK3KDb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:03:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:00:49 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Avi Kivity Cc: Tejun Heo , lkml , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc6] sched, kvm: fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt_notifers Message-ID: <20091130100049.GA7054@elte.hu> References: <4AFD2801.7020900@kernel.org> <20091113095516.GD1364@elte.hu> <4AFEAB6D.60600@redhat.com> <4B138BC8.3090008@kernel.org> <4B13942E.3000002@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B13942E.3000002@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:09 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > >> > >>> but we want to do sched.c changes via > >>>the scheduler tree. > >So, this one was a bust. Given that the only platform which might > >have been affected by the original bug is ia64 and it's very unlikely > >to happen. I think reverting this from sched/urgent would be the > >right thing to do at this point if the branch is headed for another > >push to Linus. Avi, what do you think? > > I agree. that sched/urgent commit is not queued up for 2.6.32 (Linus indicated there wont be an -rc9), it spills over to the 2.6.33 merge window. Ingo