Re: [PATCH 0/4] smpboot/watchdog: Fixes and cleanups

[Chris Metcalf]

On 07/09/2015 11:16 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 2nd patch should fix the strange bug we've seen with Chris.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> 	core/watchdog
>
> HEAD: 5e36d90b3ccb0023ad54ac7a2381c132c6b12280
>
> Thanks,
> 	Frederic
> ---
>
> Frederic Weisbecker (4):
>        smpboot: Fix memory leak on error handling
>        smpboot: Make cleanup to mirror setup
>        smpboot: Allow to pass the cpumask on per-cpu thread registration
>        watchdog: Simplify housekeeping affinity with the appropriate mask
>
>
>   include/linux/smpboot.h | 11 ++++++++++-
>   kernel/smpboot.c        | 22 +++++++++-------------
>   kernel/watchdog.c       | 15 +++++----------
>   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

You can add my

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>

to all four.  There are a couple of typos in the commit message for
patch 2/4: "ressources" and "lets simply" (should be "let's simply").

Glad you figured out what the bug was.  Curious that in your
environment you got a panic rather than an infinite loop waiting
for a timer subsystem pointer to go non-NULL.

--
Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
http://www.ezchip.com

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