From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754812Ab1HRWT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:19:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:5284 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754587Ab1HRWT2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:19:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:19:20 -0400 From: Josh Boyer To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3.0-git15 Atomic scheduling in pidmap_init Message-ID: <20110818221920.GR2227@zod.bos.redhat.com> References: <20110815140416.GB2227@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110815152052.GA2389@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110817223735.GI2227@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110817224916.GO2419@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110817230219.GJ2227@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110817230641.GA7837@somewhere.redhat.com> <20110817231750.GK2227@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110818183523.GD2325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110818140034.668e8dea.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110818212334.GE2325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110818212334.GE2325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:23:34PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > I am sorry, but I didn't make the rules! And I must carry the fix > > > longer as well, if that makes you feel any better. > > > > bah, we're not that anal. The patch fixes a bug and prevents a nasty > > warning spew. Please, send it to Linus. > > Given your Acked-by and Josh's Tested-by I might consider it. ;-) > > Speaking of which, Josh, does this patch help Nicolas and Michal? Yes, it did. The bug is closed because I included the patch. (I could recreate it myself as well.) > > We appear to be referring to the patch "rcu: Avoid having just-onlined > > CPU resched itself when RCU is idle"? If so, the changelog doesn't > > even mention that the patch fixes a scheduling-while-atomic warning and > > the changelog fails to refer to the redhat bug report. These omissions > > should be repaired, please. > > OK... But I cannot bring myself to believe that my fix does more than > hide some other bug. Which is OK, I will just say that in the changelog. I looked for this other bug myself for a while. I couldn't find it. josh