Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 07:48:05 EST


On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 20:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > > 0007-stomp-machine-deal-clever-with-stopper-lock.patch
> >
> > With this one, things have changed quite a bit. I'll take a deeper look
> > at what you did and figure out how this applies to v3.0-rt.
>
> It doesn't look like this patch is needed for v3.0-rt as the patch
> addresses the new stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu() API used by the mtrr
> code added by this commit:
>
> commit 192d8857427dd23707d5f0b86ca990c3af6f2d74
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jun 23 11:19:29 2011 -0700
>
> x86, mtrr: use stop_machine APIs for doing MTRR rendezvous
>
>
> This was added in 3.1 so the patch is still required for v3.2-rt.

Correct. 3.0 is not affected.

tglx
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