On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 17.04.2013, at 13:05, Christoffer Dall wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Marcelo has sent pull request yesterday and Linus pulled it >>> already. Sorry if I was not clear. Generally specking we should not wait >>> so late into the release to send fixes to Linus, exceptions happen of >>> course. >> >> I know, the reason everything got held up so late was that I had a >> longer series of fixes that I prepared early, which the ARM guys >> thought should be held back until -rc5, and in the end RMK merged this >> series. Only quite recently did I find out that these were then not >> intended to be merged for 3.9, but rather for next. >> >> Any reason why we can't merge the last one-line patch now and send >> another pull request to Linus at this point - with my apologies? > > Would it hurt badly if that one-liner goes into 3.9 through stable? If it makes it to 3.10-rc1, it should be basically in 3.9.1 already. > Since it's a very easy way for a guest to disable preemption on the host, it's a pretty bad bug, that should be fixed, and it would really be great if it could be fixed in 3.9, so I would strongly prefer that. Why is it a big deal? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
