Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756806Ab2HWUXb (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:23:31 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:40437 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753069Ab2HWUXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:23:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120823110157.GC18835@somewhere.redhat.com> References: <1345652628-15060-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20120823110157.GC18835@somewhere.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:23:22 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NKe6i4PuuOzn9LDmPcmRErIQTEo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] rcu: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: LKML , "Paul E. McKenney" , Chris Zankel , "3.2.x.." , Chen Liqin , Lennox Wu , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Parisc , David Howells , Koichi Yasutake , m68k , Hirokazu Takata , Yoshinori Sato , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , Cris , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , alpha Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1844 Lines: 46 Hi Frederic, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> > So this fixes some potential RCU stalls in a bunch of architectures. >> > When rcu_idle_enter()/rcu_idle_exit() became a requirement, we forgot >> > to handle the architectures that don't support CONFIG_NO_HZ. >> > >> > I guess the set should be dispatched into arch maintainer trees. >> >> I can take the m68k version, but are you sure you want it this way? >> Each of them must be in mainline before they can enter stable. > > Yeah, I was thinking the right route is for these patches to be > carried by arch maintainer who then push to Linus and then this goes > to stable. > > Is that ok for you? > > Otherwise I can carry the patches myself. In a tree of my own, or > Paul's or mmotm. As long as I have your ack. I applied your patch to the m68k for-3.6/for-linus branch. I'll ask Linus to pull later in the rc cycle (right now I don't have anything else queued for 3.6). Still, I think it's better to just collect acks and send it to Linus in one shot, so it can go into stable in one shot too. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/