Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5 re-resubmit] Fix itimer/many thread hang.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, 
> posted a few days ago.  This includes the changes from the previous 
> resubmittion, which addressed Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the 
> RCU stuff from the patch and un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() 
> function for SMP.  In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP 
> code, consolidating much of it with the SMP version and depending on 
> lower-level SMP/UP handling to take care of the differences.  It also 
> cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related 
> macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in 
> kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as 
> suggested by Oleg and Ingo.  Thanks for the review, guys.

below is the delta patch i've applied to tip/timers/posixtimers - might 
be easier to review for those who've seen v1 and who'd like to check the 
changes.

i've also merged v2 into tip/master and started testing it.

	Ingo

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