From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Suggesting to include timerfd patch Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:09:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1328678109.2200.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Sankara Muthukrishnan , linux-rt-users To: Steven Rostedt Return-path: Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:60486 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755825Ab2BHUJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:09:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1328678109.2200.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 22:56 -0600, Sankara Muthukrishnan wrote: > > Steven, > > > > Could you please include the patch that Thomas suggested for the > > timerfd hangs in the email thread (link below), if Thomas is fine with > > the patch? I did verify that that patch fixed the hangs that I saw on > > a panda board (ARM Cortex A9 dual core). > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=132753755612168&w=2 > > > > Hi Sankara, > > I follow the same stable rules that the stable mainline follows. I will > not add any patch to the stable release that is not in either mainline, > or in Thomas's -rt development branch. This keeps the stable tree from > forking and getting a fix that is not upstream. A fix to stable that is > not included upstream, may be forgotten about. > > If Thomas adds it, or if this patch is in mainline (which it is > obviously not, as it is -rt specific), then I will be happy to apply it. It's on the way.