On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 17.04.2013, at 13:05, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Gleb Natapov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Marcelo has sent pull request yesterday and Linus pulled it
>>> already. Sorry if I was not clear. Generally specking we should not wait
>>> so late into the release to send fixes to Linus, exceptions happen of
>>> course.
>>
>> I know, the reason everything got held up so late was that I had a
>> longer series of fixes that I prepared early, which the ARM guys
>> thought should be held back until -rc5, and in the end RMK merged this
>> series. Only quite recently did I find out that these were then not
>> intended to be merged for 3.9, but rather for next.
>>
>> Any reason why we can't merge the last one-line patch now and send
>> another pull request to Linus at this point - with my apologies?
>
> Would it hurt badly if that one-liner goes into 3.9 through stable? If it
> makes it to 3.10-rc1, it should be basically in 3.9.1 already.
>
Since it's a very easy way for a guest to disable preemption on the
host, it's a pretty bad bug, that should be fixed, and it would really
be great if it could be fixed in 3.9, so I would strongly prefer that.
Why is it a big deal?
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