Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ?

[Luis Henriques]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> * Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba
>> Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800
>> 
>>     sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
>> 
>> Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong
>> value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a
>> candidate for stable kernel.
>> 
>> The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace
>> programs? As the changelog says:
>> 
>>     [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
>>       slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
>
> It appears to have caused no trouble.
>
> So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels:
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Ingo
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Thanks, I'm queuing it for the 3.5 kernel.

Cheers,
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Luis
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