Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5 incremental re-resubmit] Fix itimer/manythread hang.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 27 2008 - 14:08:45 EST



* Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A couple of days ago I re-resubmitted the itimer/many thread hang.
> Unfortunately, I had too many things going on at once and screwed it
> up, not verifying the UP version and entirely missing a set of
> cleanups that I had intended to include. This rectifies that screwup.
>
> At Ingo's request, this is an incremental patch, relative to the code
> in his -tip tree.
>
> These changes have been minimally tested on both UP and SMP
> environments. They simplify the UP code, consolidating pretty much
> all of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP
> handling to take care of the differences. It also cleans up some UP
> compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related macros into
> kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in kernel/fork.c and has
> a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested by Oleg and Ingo.
> Again, thanks for the reviews, guys.

applied to tip/timers/posixtimers, thanks Frank!

the additional simplifications in v2->v3:

3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

look really good. If you dont hear from me it means -tip testing goes
fine and the patches are queued up for v2.6.28.

Ingo
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