Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] RCU commits for 3.20

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:34:45PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello, Ingo,
> > > > 
> > > > The changes in this series include:
> > > > 
> > > > 1.	Documentation updates.  These were posted to LKML at
> > > > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/496.
> > > > 
> > > > 2.	Miscellaneous fixes.  These were posted to LKML at
> > > > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/507.
> > > > 
> > > > 3.	Preemptible-RCU fixes, including fixing an old bug in the
> > > > 	interaction of RCU priority boosting and CPU hotplug.  These were
> > > > 	posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/535.
> > > > 
> > > > 4.	SRCU updates.  These were posted to LKML at
> > > > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/555.
> > > > 
> > > > 5.	RCU CPU stall-warning updates.  These were posted to LKML at
> > > > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/565.
> > > > 
> > > > 6.	RCU torture-test updates.  These were posted to LKML at
> > > > 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/591.
> > > > 
> > > > These changes are available in the git repository at:
> > > > 
> > > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git for-mingo
> > > > 
> > > > for you to fetch changes up to 78e691f4ae2d5edea0199ca802bb505b9cdced88:
> > > > 
> > > >   Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD (2015-01-15 23:34:34 -0800)
> > > > 
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > > Alexander Gordeev (1):
> > > >       rcu: Remove redundant rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() from tiny RCU
> > > > 
> > > > Calvin Owens (1):
> > > >       ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU
> > > > 
> > > > David Hildenbrand (1):
> > > >       hotplugcpu: Avoid deadlocks by waking active_writer
> > > > 
> > 
> > Hi Ingo, Paul,
> > 
> > Heiko/Christian seem to have hit the bug (hotplugcpu: Avoid deadlocks by waking
> > active_writer addresses) in 3.18-rc3.
> > 
> > And as commit b2c4623dcd07 was in linux starting with 3.18-rc3, we should
> > probably (have done a) cc-stable.
> 
> Good point, though appropriate RCU changes seem to make their 
> way to -stable without explicit CCs.  Maybe I should be doing 
> them, but doing so in the past has normally gotten me 
> complaints from the -stable maintainers.
> 
> Ingo, how would you like me to be handling this in the future?

So if you put a Cc: stable tag into the commit then usually they 
get picked up automatically.

Just make sure you don't Cc: the stable team on patch submissions 
(which might or might not make it into Linus's tree), that's what 
will get complaints.

Does that work for you?

Thanks,

	Ingo