Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler updates for v5.18

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 07:07:37 EST



* Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Ingo,
>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 6:13 AM Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 11:54:09AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> > > > Huang Ying (3):
> >> > > > sched/numa-balancing: Move some document to make it consistent with the code
> >> > > > sched/numa: Fix NUMA topology for systems with CPU-less nodes
> >> > > > sched/numa: Avoid migrating task to CPU-less node
> >> > >
> >> > > Linus, I don't think you want to merge this as-is. This will introduce a
> >> > > kernel crash on arm64 NUMA as mentioned in this thread,
> >> >
> >> > Ok, dropped from my queue. Thanks,
> >>
> >> I've reverted the broken commit & will send another pull request after
> >> some testing. Sorry about that!
> >
> > Ended up using the fix below instead - it's tested already on the affected
> > system.
> >
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Is it a general rule to send a fixing patch for the bug of a patch
> merged by tip tree? Or a new version of the patch is acceptable too?

Depends on how recently it got merged. This one was merged a few weeks ago,
and the fix patch is simple enough, so I went for that approach.

Thanks,

Ingo