Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965953AbbBCQjG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:39:06 -0500 Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.158]:37832 "EHLO e37.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753318AbbBCQjC (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:39:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:34:35 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: David Hildenbrand Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Ehrhardt , Heiko Carstens Subject: Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] RCU commits for 3.20 Message-ID: <20150203163435.GT19109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20150120004502.GA14517@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150121051514.GA12032@gmail.com> <20150203153445.296bc07f@thinkpad-w530> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150203153445.296bc07f@thinkpad-w530> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15020316-0025-0000-0000-00000845DC5B Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2631 Lines: 68 On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:34:45PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > > > * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > Hello, Ingo, > > > > > > The changes in this series include: > > > > > > 1. Documentation updates. These were posted to LKML at > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/496. > > > > > > 2. Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/507. > > > > > > 3. Preemptible-RCU fixes, including fixing an old bug in the > > > interaction of RCU priority boosting and CPU hotplug. These were > > > posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/535. > > > > > > 4. SRCU updates. These were posted to LKML at > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/555. > > > > > > 5. RCU CPU stall-warning updates. These were posted to LKML at > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/565. > > > > > > 6. RCU torture-test updates. These were posted to LKML at > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/591. > > > > > > These changes are available in the git repository at: > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git for-mingo > > > > > > for you to fetch changes up to 78e691f4ae2d5edea0199ca802bb505b9cdced88: > > > > > > Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD (2015-01-15 23:34:34 -0800) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Alexander Gordeev (1): > > > rcu: Remove redundant rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() from tiny RCU > > > > > > Calvin Owens (1): > > > ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU > > > > > > David Hildenbrand (1): > > > hotplugcpu: Avoid deadlocks by waking active_writer > > > > > Hi Ingo, Paul, > > Heiko/Christian seem to have hit the bug (hotplugcpu: Avoid deadlocks by waking > active_writer addresses) in 3.18-rc3. > > And as commit b2c4623dcd07 was in linux starting with 3.18-rc3, we should > probably (have done a) cc-stable. Good point, though appropriate RCU changes seem to make their way to -stable without explicit CCs. Maybe I should be doing them, but doing so in the past has normally gotten me complaints from the -stable maintainers. Ingo, how would you like me to be handling this in the future? Thanx, Paul -- 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/