From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755870Ab1G1Pxe (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:53:34 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45411 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755828Ab1G1Pxb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:53:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:52:45 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [stable-longterm] x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check Message-ID: <20110728155245.GA22939@suse.de> References: <4E3180C9.4000601@openvz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E3180C9.4000601@openvz.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:31:21PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > I think this v2.6.37-rc5-64-gf1c1807 and v2.6.36-rc4-167-g995bd3b should be merged into longterm/stable kernels. > We also found the same bug in RHEL6 kernel. (nohz kernel stuck and wait for HPET wraparound) > This HPET-bug really annoying, while fix is tiny. This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.