On 2018-07-10 20:56:24 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hi Sebastian, Hi Steven, > I'm looking at backporting patches from 4.16-rt and noticed that you > have: > > Revert "x86: Convert mce timer to hrtimer" > Revert "x86/mce: use swait queue for mce wakeups" > > With no explanation to why they were reverted. When did things change? > Should this be 4.14-rt material? from the announce email: | Changes since v4.16.8-rt2: | | - Drop two MCE related patches. They are no longer required since the | timer wheel rework. The timer wheel rework made it possible to have a raw_spin_lock_t in the timer_list timer. The problem with MCE was that it enqueued a timer from hardirq context which is now possible. So the patches are no longer required. This revert does not fix a bug in v4.14 nor does it break anything. > Thanks, > > -- Steve Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
