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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:57:10 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full()
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:01:33PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> wrote:
> > Is this still scheduled to go into 3.5? I'm asking because -rc7 has been
> > released and does not contain this fix. W/o this fix, my powerpc system
> > won't boot[0] :-\
> 
> I don't expect James is going to push my async changes for 3.5.  So
> maybe we should go with Zhong's smaller fix for 3.5 and then replace
> with the ASYNC_DOMAIN patches in 3.6?

Makes sense to me!  I have been using Zhong's fix for my testing on
PowerPC for some weeks now with no trouble.

							Thanx, Paul