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Subject: Re: [PATCH] More fixes for lazy IRQ vs. idle
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:49:40 +1000
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On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 16:10 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > Looks like we still have issues with pSeries and Cell idle code
> > vs. the lazy irq state. In fact, the reset fixes that went upstream
> > are exposing the problem more by causing BUG_ON() to trigger (which
> > this patch turns into a WARN_ON instead).
> 
> Do we need to cc stable for 3.4 or is this new stuff only effecting us
> since the 3.5 merge window?

That's probably stable business, I'll check that before I send it to
Linus.

Cheers,
Ben.