Re: 3.0-git15 Atomic scheduling in pidmap_init

Frederic Weisbecker
2011-08-17T23:06:53Z

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:02:19PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:37:35PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > > > Please see the attached.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixed it up quickly to apply on top of -rc2 and it seems to solve the
> > > > > problem nicely. Thanks for the patch.
> > > >
> > > > Good to hear! I guess I should keep it, then. ;-)
> > >
> > > Hey Paul, were you going to send this to Linus for -rc3? I haven't seen
> > > it come across LKML yet.
> >
> > I might... But does it qualify as a regression? That part of the
> > code hasn't changed for some time now.
>
> It's a fix for a problem that is newly surfaced in 3.1. A regression,
> likely not since it's been there forever, but new debugging options
> uncovered it. I'm pretty sure the -rc stage takes fixes even if they
> aren't regressions.

Nope, after -rc1 only regressions fixes are taken (most of the time).

>
> josh