On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:23:11 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks, still would have preferred a comment in the revert commit message ;-) > > 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. OK, even though this doesn't fix anything, I think I'll still backport it. -- Steve -- 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
