Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757298AbXIFJ57 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753541AbXIFJ5v (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:57:51 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:38650 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbXIFJ5v (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:57:51 -0400 Message-ID: <46DFCF1A.8090808@goop.org> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:57:46 +0100 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Zachary Amsden , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , stable@kernel.org, Virtualization Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug References: <46CE70C8.2030005@vmware.com> <1189024666.10802.197.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1189036175.21516.31.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <200709060641.36855.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200709060641.36855.ak@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 16 Andi Kleen wrote: >> I agree. The patch is a nop. I just got overly paranoid. The whole >> thing is just very prone to bugs. >> > So do we need a patch for .23 or not? > Forgot this bit. No, I think the upshot is that it isn't necessary (nor Rusty's). J - 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/