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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: tip-bot for Phil Auld <tipbot@zytor.com>,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	efault@gmx.de, Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer loop to avoid hard lockup
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:50:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408145026.GG4689@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190408134214.GC6584@lorien.usersys.redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:42:14AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 02:15:23PM +0000 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> [This is an automated email]
>>
>> This commit has been processed because it contains a -stable tag.
>> The stable tag indicates that it's relevant for the following trees: all
>>
>> The bot has tested the following trees: v5.0.6, v4.19.33, v4.14.110, v4.9.167, v4.4.178, v3.18.138.
>>
>> v5.0.6: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>>     c0ad4aa4d841 ("sched/fair: Robustify CFS-bandwidth timer locking")
>>
>> v4.19.33: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>>     c0ad4aa4d841 ("sched/fair: Robustify CFS-bandwidth timer locking")
>>
>> v4.14.110: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>>     c0ad4aa4d841 ("sched/fair: Robustify CFS-bandwidth timer locking")
>>
>
>This is a minor context difference. There is no actual dependency on the
>c0ad4aa4d841 patch.  It would be easy to produce new version that could
>go in these trees. I'm not sure what the right action is in that case.
>Should I spin a new version with the different locking in the context?

Please do :)

The algorithm does the dependency analysis by looking at surrounding
code rather than actual functional dependency.

--
Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190319130005.25492-1-pauld@redhat.com>
2019-04-03  8:38 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer loop to avoid hard lockup tip-bot for Phil Auld
     [not found]   ` <20190405141524.05DDA2186A@mail.kernel.org>
2019-04-08 13:42     ` Phil Auld
2019-04-08 14:50       ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-04-08 17:03         ` Phil Auld
2019-04-08 17:06           ` Sasha Levin
2019-04-08 17:31             ` Phil Auld
2019-04-16 15:32 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() " tip-bot for Phil Auld
2019-04-16 19:26   ` Phil Auld

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