Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context" failed to apply to 3.10-stable tree

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:23:49PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:57:26PM +0800, Zhouping Liu wrote:
> > > On 07/18/2013 01:00 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree.
> > > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> > > 
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > Its prerequisite patch is:
> > > 7c4c3a0f18b hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but 
> > > stopped)
> > > how about also back-port this patch?
> > 
> > I could do that, but from reading the changelog comments below, is this
> > patch really needed for 3.10-stable?  3.11 seems to make sense, as some
> > other code was using this api and causing problems, but that isn't in
> > 3.10 from what I can tell, right?
> > 
> > So, is it really needed for 3.10?
> 
> The issue itself (smp function call from softirq context) needs to be
> fixed in older kernels as well. Backport w/o the XEN dependency below.

Thanks for the backport, I'll queue it up for the next release after
this one.

greg k-h
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