Re: [ANNOUNCE] v5.10-rc3-rt7

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:58:24 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> Dear RT folks!
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the v5.10-rc3-rt7 patch set. 
> 
> Changes since v5.10-rc3-rt6:
> 
>   - Mike Galbraith reported a lockdep warning triggered by the nouveau
>     driver with threaded interrupts.

Although these patches have:

Fixes: 710da3c8ea7df ("sched/core: Prevent race condition between cpuset and __sched_setscheduler()")

Which exists in 5.4, I'm guessing it's not needed for 5.4-rt as there's no
stable-rt tag in them?

-- Steve


> 
>   - The recently reworked highmem code could trigger a warning on
>     certain ARM configurations. Reported upstream once parts of the code
>     hit linux-next. Patch by Thomas Gleixner.
> 
>   - Update the softirq patches by Thomas Gleixner to newer version.
> 
> Known issues
>      - It has been pointed out that due to changes to the printk code the
>        internal buffer representation changed. This is only an issue if tools
>        like `crash' are used to extract the printk buffer from a kernel memory
>        image.
> 
> The delta patch against v5.10-rc3-rt6 is appended below and can be found here:
>  
>      https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.10/incr/patch-5.10-rc3-rt6-rt7.patch.xz
> 
> You can get this release via the git tree at:
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git v5.10-rc3-rt7
> 
> The RT patch against v5.10-rc3 can be found here:
> 
>     https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.10/older/patch-5.10-rc3-rt7.patch.xz
> 
> The split quilt queue is available at:
> 
>     https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.10/older/patches-5.10-rc3-rt7.tar.xz
> 
> Sebastian
>