Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] srcu: Allow use of Classic SRCU from both process and" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 06:35:18PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/06/2017 18:31, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Indeed, this won't apply cleanly to 4.9 and earlier because of some
> > changes to the way SRCU works.  And if you try to make the obvious
> > adjustments to make the patch apply, you will break SRCU.
> > 
> > So, question for Paolo...  How important is it to push this back to
> > v4.9 and earlier?  To make this happen, some non-trivial SRCU changes
> > would also need to be backported.
> 
> Indeed I had noticed commit f2c4689640e9 ("srcu: Implement
> more-efficient reader counts", 2017-01-25).  It's not very important.

OK, good to know.  I haven't given up on it, so it might get done in
any case, but no promises.  Not yet, anyway.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul




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