Re: [PATCH v2] ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Jan 13 2015 - 13:43:17 EST


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:17:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Calvin Owens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01/07 at 20:53 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > Should this go to stable as well? It is technically a regression, albeit
> > > > a rather long-standing one.
> > >
> > > Your original patch could go into stable, but my updated version depends
> > > on functionality not present before 3.20.
> >
> > Right. I'll wait until 3.20-rc1, and then I'll send the original to
> > stable with a reference to the commit.
>
> We better do that in two steps:
>
> 1) The original patch tagged for stable
> 2) Pauls version as a delta patch
>
> Can one of you please provide such a series?

Carl, could you please send me the original with the proper -stable
reference? I will then queue that one and rebase mine on top of it.

Thanx, Paul

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