Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 18 2011 - 14:09:39 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: cputimer: Cure lock inversion
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Oct 17 11:50:30 CEST 2011
> >
> > There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock; notably
> > the two callchains involved are:
>
> Thanks, looks nice and small. Simon - can you check that this works for you?
>
> Thomas/Ingo - once confirmed by Simon, should I take it directly or
> will this come through your trees?

Yeah, we have it in -tip already and it was tested all day, lemme
cook up a pull request to not hold up the v3.1 release much longer..

Thanks,

Ingo
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