From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757856Ab2IJW7M (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:59:12 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:36745 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757549Ab2IJW7I (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:59:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:58:45 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ben Hutchings , LKML , Chris Zankel , "3.2.x.." , Chen Liqin , Lennox Wu , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Parisc , David Howells , Koichi Yasutake , Geert Uytterhoeven , m68k , Hirokazu Takata , Yoshinori Sato , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , Cris , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , alpha , Michael Cree Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] rcu: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop v2 Message-ID: <20120910225845.GC4257@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1345733915-20040-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20120824212647.GU2472@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1345857554.4840.43.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <20120910215541.GE21277@somewhere.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120910215541.GE21277@somewhere.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12091022-7282-0000-0000-00000CDE8C64 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:56:08PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 02:19:14AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 14:26 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:58:24PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Changes since v1: > > > > > > > > - Fixed preempt handling in alpha idle loop > > > > - added ack from Geert > > > > - fixed stable email address, sorry :-/ > > > > > > > > This time I built tested everywhere but: h8300 (compiler internal error), > > > > and mn10300, parisc, score (cross compilers not available in > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/) > > > > > > > > For testing, you can pull from: > > > > > > > > git://github.com/fweisbec/linux-dynticks.git > > > > rcu/idle-fix-v2 > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > I have queued these on -rcu branch rcu/idle: > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git > > > > > > This problem has been in place since 3.3, so it is hard to argue that > > > it is a regression for this merge window. I have therefore queued it > > > for 3.7. > > > > I don't follow that; I would expect any serious bug fix (serious enough > > for a stable update) to be acceptable for 3.6 at this point. > > > > If the regression occurred in 3.3, then the cc lines should be something > > like: > > > > Cc: # 3.3+ > > > > and not the current: > > > > Cc: 3.2.x.. > > > > (Note, version annotations should be on the right of the address, not in > > the 'real name' position on the left.) > > Ah indeed. > > Hmm, I don't understand why we took that convention while we can reuse the name > that precedes the email to put that information. > > Anyway, should I resend the patchset with this thing fixed? Please feel free to do so. ;-) Thanx, Paul