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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:00:36 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 3.0-rc kernels unbootable since -rc3
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:49:22PM +0100, Julie Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > If this is the correct one, then the upstreamable patch I sent recently
> > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/313) should also work.  Famous last
> > words...
> >
> >                                                        Thanx, Paul
> 
> 
> Indeed this works, applied to a clean v3.0-rc4  (!CONFIG_RCU_BOOST 64-bit build)

Woo-hoo!!!  ;-)

I have added your Tested-by and will push it out for -next testing.

> Great job, Paul, thanks for all your efforts.
> I'll test it tomorrow too on -rc5, 6 and 7 (out of time for tonight)

Thinking good thoughts for the other -rc releases, and again thank you
very much for your testing!

Ravi, could you please test to make sure that it works for you?

							Thanx, Paul