Re: [tip:timers/urgent] timers/tick/broadcast-hrtimer: Fix suspicious RCU usage in idle loop

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Mar 29 2015 - 03:04:57 EST



* Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please add stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the Cc?
> Without the patch, we get RCU warnings during bootup.
> Hence the patch is important for the stable kernels as well.

This fix is now upstream.

Greg, please back-port the following upstream commit to -stable:

a127d2bcf1fb ("timers/tick/broadcast-hrtimer: Fix suspicious RCU usage in idle loop")

this bug was introduced in v3.15 and will cleanly apply to v3.15 and
all later stable kernels.

Thanks,

Ingo
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