Re: [PATCH v2] Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck in __do_softirq.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 06/06/2013 01:48 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:

> As wrote before, a brief explanation on why both are necessary would
> be nice.  Something like - "the time limit prevents from introducing
> excessive latency from softirq handling and the loop limit protects
> against softirq runaway which may happen during stop_machine - see
> XXX".
>
> Please cc Linus and also cc stable@vger.kernel.org.  We definitely
> want this backported.

v3 was sent, with updated comments and expanded CC list.

The patch is against 3.9.4, though I assume it will apply
to the upstream kernel easily enough.

I didn't want to add a link to the email thread..  The commit message
and patch has enough info that I think an interested party could find
the email thread easily enough if they needed more history.

And, much of the email thread is me running in circles thinking
I am going insane :)

Thanks,
Ben

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