Re: PROBLEM: 3.0-rc kernels unbootable since -rc3

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-12T20:00:14Z

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:10:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 11:59 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > OK, so the infinite loop in task_waking_fair() happens even if RCU callbacks
> > are deferred until after the scheduler is fully initialized. Sounds like
> > one for the scheduler guys. ;-)
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/150

Such a simple patch. And yes, it fixes the issue. You can add
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> if it hasn't yet
showed up in Ingo's tree.

Paul, thanks for help on this and providing ideas to test!