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Subject: Re: Regression in RCU subsystem in latest mainline kernel
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:21:07 +1000
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On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 22:17 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 12:02 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 17:06 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I was pretty much able to reproduce this on my PA Semi PPC box. Funny
> > > thing is, when I type on the console, it makes progress. Anyway, it
> > > seems that powerpc has an issue with irq_work(). I'll try to get some
> > > time either tonight or next week to figure it out.
> > 
> > Does this help ?
> 
> It did for me. Rojhalat, did this fix your issue too?

Ok, adding that to what I'm about to send to Linus.

Cheers,
Ben.