Re: [PATCH v2] ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jan 13 2015 - 06:17:42 EST


On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Calvin Owens wrote:
> On Wednesday 01/07 at 20:53 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Should this go to stable as well? It is technically a regression, albeit
> > > a rather long-standing one.
> >
> > Your original patch could go into stable, but my updated version depends
> > on functionality not present before 3.20.
>
> Right. I'll wait until 3.20-rc1, and then I'll send the original to
> stable with a reference to the commit.

We better do that in two steps:

1) The original patch tagged for stable
2) Pauls version as a delta patch

Can one of you please provide such a series?

Thanks,

tglx
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