From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755829Ab3AEQ6m (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:58:42 -0500 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:54911 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755768Ab3AEQ6k (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:58:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:58:17 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org Subject: [PATCH tip/core/urgent] no-CB CPU changes for 3.8 Message-ID: <20130105165817.GA13260@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13010516-5806-0000-0000-00001DD57ED0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! This patch series contains a couple of fixes to the no-CBs CPU feature, both courtesy of Paul Gortmaker: 1. Prevent soft-lockup complaints from no-CBs kthreads. 2. Make rcu_nocb_poll and early_param instead of a module parameter. There is probably at least one more fix in this area. Thanx, Paul b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 13 ++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)