From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752469Ab0LHLNl (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:13:41 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47923 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750960Ab0LHLNj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 06:13:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 2/3] nohz: fix printk_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus From: Peter Zijlstra To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Greg KH , Frank Blaschka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Christof Schmitt , Horst Hartmann , Martin Schwidefsky , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20101208080749.GB2523@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <20101126120057.879397696@de.ibm.com> <20101126120235.406766476@de.ibm.com> <1290773512.2145.139.camel@laptop> <20101207213241.GL14849@kroah.com> <20101208080749.GB2523@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:13:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1291806810.28378.2.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:07 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:32:41PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:11:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:00 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > > plain text document attachment (002_printk_needs_cpu.diff) > > > > From: Heiko Carstens > > > > > > > > This patch fixes a hang observed with 2.6.32 kernels where timers got > > > > enqueued on offline cpus. > [...] > > > > Is this going to make it into .37, or is it going to wait until .38? > > I hope it will go into .37. The same should be true for the > get_next_timer_interrupt() which addresses the same problem. > Peter, Ingo? Ingo just send the pull request to Linus for two of the three patches, I'll try and feed him the last one today.