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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.25
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:25:35PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > Attached is my fix for this problem. I don't think it is a regression
> > as such, but it can't hurt to go into 2.6.26 IMO.

Nick, you're a hero.

> > PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPU is broken.
> 
> Bastard!
> 
> rcutorture fixed here, starting cross-compile stuff (without much interest).

I'm marking this "tested-by" by you too, on the strength of that 
rcutorture thing. I think Nick nailed this one.

Good jorb,

		Linus