From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David <david@unsolicited.net>
Subject: Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:03:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071120210315.GC13160@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120203919.GB10008@elte.hu>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:39:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > > but we only have cpu_clock() from v2.6.23 onwards - so we should not
> > > apply the original patch to v2.6.22. (we should not have applied
> > > your patch that started the mess to begin with - but that's another
> > > matter.)
> >
> > Well, I can easily back that one out, if that is easier than adding 2
> > more patches to try to fix up the mess here.
> >
> > Let me know if you feel that would be best.
>
> i'd leave it alone - doing that we have in essence the softlockup
> detector turned off. Reverting to the older version might trigger false
> positives that need the new stuff.
Ok, I'll see if the current round of patches fix up everyone complaints
:)
thanks for sending these,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-17 18:21 Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8 Javier Kohen
2007-11-17 19:12 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2007-11-17 20:05 ` David
2007-11-17 20:37 ` Greg KH
2007-11-18 0:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-19 23:22 ` Greg KH
2007-11-20 1:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-20 6:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 17:05 ` Greg KH
2007-11-20 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 21:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-11-20 21:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 22:06 ` Greg KH
2007-11-20 23:15 ` David Miller
2007-11-20 23:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 23:52 ` Greg KH
2007-11-18 0:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 0:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-11-20 6:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-20 17:04 ` Greg KH
2007-11-17 19:40 ` David
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