On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:29:56AM -0600, Chris J Arges wrote: > There are a few patches that fix race conditions and crashes using > CFS_BANDWIDTH that have been identified here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/818 > > I've already submitted "sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq racing with > period_timer stopping" to stable as it fixed an immediate issue I was > seeing; however these other patches fix related bugs that could also be > problematic. > > The commits are the following: > > commit 1ee14e6c8cddeeb8a490d7b54cd9016e4bb900b4 > Author: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Oct 16 11:16:12 2013 -0700 > > sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used > > commit db06e78cc13d70f10877e0557becc88ab3ad2be8 > Author: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Oct 16 11:16:17 2013 -0700 > > sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining > > commit 927b54fccbf04207ec92f669dce6806848cbec7d > Author: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Oct 16 11:16:22 2013 -0700 > > sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock > > commit 0ac9b1c21874d2490331233b3242085f8151e166 > Author: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Oct 16 11:16:27 2013 -0700 > > sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight > > These cleanly cherry-pick in all branches from 3.4.y - 3.12.y and I've > build tested them after applying the patch. Thanks, I've now queued these all up. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html