On 3/23/2012 12:22 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:41 -0800 > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >>> The bug looks pretty generic, nothing very PPC-specific there. It >>> might affect other architectures - we won't know until we find out >>> wht caused it. >> >> well one half of the race looks pretty generic... >> ..... doesn't mean the other half of the race is though.... >> >> >>> >>> Ho hum, I suppose I should pull the patch out of linux-next, to >>> avoid disrupting other testing. This means it's going to be hard >>> to get the bug fixed. >> >> it means losing this one big PPC machine indeed.... until they hit >> that same race some other way with regular real cpu hotplug ;-( > > So we're kinda stuck with this. As I can't merge it, I guess I'll make > smp-start-up-non-boot-cpus-asynchronously.patch disappear. well yeah, PPC is throwing things in the spanner we're now working on an x86-only patch with basically the same improvement, but done in a way that does not touch the other architectures so by all means drop the patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
