Re: [PATCH 3.18 132/134] rcu: Do RCU GP kthread self-wakeup from softirq and interrupt

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Mar 23 2019 - 02:33:38 EST


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:00:17PM +0000, He, Bo wrote:
> Hi, Greg:
> Can you hold on the 3.18-stable branch, it seems there are some issue, please see the comments from Paul:
>
> Comments from Paul:
> I subjected all of the others to light rcutorture testing, which they passed. This v3.18 patch hung, however. Trying it again with stock
> v3.18 got the same hang, so I believe we can exonerate the patch and give it a good firm "maybe" on 3.18.
>
> Worth paying special attention to further test results from 3.18.x, though!

Ok, I've dropped this from the 3.18.y queue now, thanks.

greg k-h