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

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Mar 30 2015 - 06:26:27 EST


On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 09:04:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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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Thanks, I'm queuing this for the 3.16 kernel as well.

Cheers,
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Luís
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