* Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 07:33 -0500, Robert Jennings wrote:
> > When an associativity level change is found for one thread, the
> > siblings threads need to be updated as well.  This is done today
> > for PRRN in stage_topology_update() but is missing for VPHN in
> > update_cpu_associativity_changes_mask().
> > 
> > All threads should be updated to move to the new node.  Without this
> > patch, a single thread may be flagged for a topology change, leaving it
> > in a different node from its siblings, which is incorrect.  This causes
> > problems for the scheduler where overlapping scheduler groups are created
> > and a loop is formed in those groups.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <r...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
> 
> Patch breaks the UP build ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.

Very sorry about that, a fix is on the way.

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