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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, chenzhongjin@huawei.com,
	rcu@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-4.19/rcu-tasks: Eliminate deadlocks involving do_exit() and RCU tasks
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:03:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59861bc8-a651-4199-a60d-2cb39b3568a9@paulmck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024022430-uninsured-zoom-f78c@gregkh>

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 06:16:24AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:48:49AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 02:15:30PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:08:46PM +0800, Zqiang wrote:
> > > > From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > > 
> > > > commit bc31e6cb27a9334140ff2f0a209d59b08bc0bc8c upstream.
> > > 
> > > Again, not a valid commit id :(
> > 
> > Apologies!  With luck, there will be a valid ID next merge window.
> > This one does not backport cleanly, so we were trying to get ahead of
> > the game.  Also, some of the people testing needed the backport due
> > to the usual issues.  :-/
> > 
> > Any advice to handle this better next time around?  (Aside from us
> > avoiding CCing stable too soon...)
> 
> You can just wait until it hits Linus's tree, otherwise we do get
> confused :)
> 
> Or if you don't want to wait, put it in the notes section below the ---
> line and say "this isn't in Linus's tree yet, the git id mentioned is a
> lie!" or something like that.  Give us a chance to figure it out
> please...

Thank you, and should this situation arise in the future, we will put
the disclaimer after the "---", avoid CCing -stable, or similar.

Again, apologies for the hassle!

							Thanx, Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-25 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-07 11:08 [PATCH] linux-4.19/rcu-tasks: Eliminate deadlocks involving do_exit() and RCU tasks Zqiang
2024-02-12 20:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-23 13:15 ` Greg KH
2024-02-23 19:48   ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-24  5:16     ` Greg KH
2024-02-24 12:05       ` Z qiang
2024-02-25 19:03       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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