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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> Subject: cputimer: Cure lock inversion
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Mon Oct 17 11:50:30 CEST 2011
>
> There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock; notably
> the two callchains involved are:

Thanks, looks nice and small. Simon - can you check that this works for you?

Thomas/Ingo - once confirmed by Simon, should I take it directly or
will this come through your trees?

                                 Linus