Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] Gaurantee spinlocks implicit barrier for !PREEMPT_COUNT

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Fri Apr 05 2013 - 00:36:32 EST


Hi Thomas,

On 04/04/2013 08:58 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> Hi Vineet,
>
> Our stress testing campaign has just successfully completed on this
> patch. It seems to solve several issues we have seen in unpatched
> versions, amongst others the original timer issue, a crash in hrtimer
> rb-tree manipulation etc.
>
> Greetings,
> Christian

Given that we are closing on 3.9 release, and that one/more of these patches fix a
real issue for us - can you please consider my earlier patch to fix
timer_pending() only for 3.9 [http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1508224.html]
This will be a localized / low risk change for this late in cycle.

For 3.10 - assuming preempt_* change is blessed, we can revert this one and add
that fuller/better fix.

What do you think ?

Thx,
-Vineet
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