From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932749Ab2JRSE5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:04:57 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:11091 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932725Ab2JRSE4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:04:56 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=IZ4FqBWa c=1 sm=0 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:17 a=mNMOxpOpBa8A:10 a=B91VBO2a_qwA:10 a=c7QpnVTx6xIA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=_Pjek1p4V8oA:10 a=wLd2_EhOBAfv83gkEDkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.67.115.198 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:04:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain To: Greg Kroah-Hartman cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Christoph Lameter , "Paul E. McKenney" , Michael Wang , Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [ 004/120] slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock In-Reply-To: <20121018171411.GC23278@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20121011005825.364610894@linuxfoundation.org> <20121011005826.156478516@linuxfoundation.org> <20121018132020.GB7282@home.goodmis.org> <20121018171411.GC23278@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> Michael traced the problem back to a commit in release 3.0.0: >> >> I don't see this fix in the last 3.0 stable release. Shouldn't it go >> there too? > > As-is, it doesn't apply at all. If someone provides me a backport, I'll > be glad to apply it there. > Ug, it seems that the bug isn't in 3.0 :-/ I was looking at a diff and interpreted it incorrectly. The bug doesn't look to be in 3.0. Sorry for the noise. -- Steve