Re: Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Sat Feb 06 2016 - 08:08:36 EST


On Fri, 05 Feb 2016, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:59:49PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 15:54 -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> > > What are you suggesting?
> >
> > That 874bbfe6 should die.
>
> Yeah, it's gonna be killed. The commit is there because the behavior
> change broke things. We don't want to guarantee it but have been and
> can't change it right away just because we don't like it when things
> may break from it. The plan is to implement a debug option to force
> workqueue to always execute these work items on a foreign cpu to weed
> out breakages.

Is there a path to filter down sane behavior (whichever one it might be) to
the affected stable/LTS kernels?

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Henrique Holschuh