Re: 3.0-git15 Atomic scheduling in pidmap_init

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:37:35PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:04:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > > Please see the attached.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixed it up quickly to apply on top of -rc2 and it seems to solve the
> > > > problem nicely.  Thanks for the patch.
> > > 
> > > Good to hear!  I guess I should keep it, then.  ;-)
> > 
> > Hey Paul, were you going to send this to Linus for -rc3?  I haven't seen
> > it come across LKML yet.
> 
> I might...  But does it qualify as a regression?  That part of the
> code hasn't changed for some time now.

It's a fix for a problem that is newly surfaced in 3.1.  A regression,
likely not since it's been there forever, but new debugging options
uncovered it.  I'm pretty sure the -rc stage takes fixes even if they
aren't regressions.

josh
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