Re: [PATCH 3.18 11/61] workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool

[Luis Henriques]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:54:48AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This patch will apply to 3.10, but not 3.14, and I'm confused.  Should I
> > backport the original version to 3.14?  3.10?  Use this different
> > version instead?
> 
> The original version should apply fine back to 3.16.

Thank you, Tejun.  There's just a change to the original patch that is
required: replace a 'return true' by a 'return' in
maybe_create_worker(), as it's now a void function.  I'm queuing the
backport below for the 3.16 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luís