Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754897AbaJIKef (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2014 06:34:35 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f179.google.com ([209.85.220.179]:43286 "EHLO mail-vc0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752304AbaJIKe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2014 06:34:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141009064813.GA20517@gmail.com> References: <20141009064813.GA20517@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 06:34:26 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: CiZ7ONZewUFBDY-DUBPSNfBrDh4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] timers/nohz updates for v3.18 From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar , stable Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , =?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBXZWlzYmVja2Vy?= , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hmm.. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Please pull the latest timers-nohz-for-linus git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-nohz-for-linus > > # HEAD: 9b01f5bf3999a3db5b1bbd9fdfd80d8d304e94ee nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support > > Main changes: > > - Fix the deadlock reported by Dave Jones et al > - Clean up and fix nohz_full interaction with arch abilities > - nohz init code consolidation/cleanup Ok, pulled. But none of these are marked for stable, yet the deadlock people are seeing is in 3.17. Is there a separate line of minimal fixes just for that? Or was the lack of stable tags just an oversight? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/