Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: fix circular locking dependency

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 16:41:16 EST


Hello, Paul.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:08:21PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And one additional question... How are we pushing this upstream? By
> default, I would push things starting this late into the merge window
> following the next one (v4.17), but would be more than willing to make
> an exception given that this fixes a valid real-world complaint.

I put the workqueue part in the fixes branch. If there's gonna be
another rc, I'm gonna push it to Linus. If not, I'll push when the
next window opens. I think either way should be fine.

> For that matter, if you would rather push my commit along with your pair
> of commits, that works for me! Either way, please just let me know.

Oh, let's push these through their respective trees. Please take the
RCU one through the usual RCU tree.

Thank you very much.

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tejun