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On 01/07/15 00:10, Jason Wolfe wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> We've been running into 'spin lock held too long' panics in the kernel
> idle threads on 10-STABLE over the past 6 months, so I was interested
> to see your work here in the callout code.  I went ahead and brought
> this patch back to a recent 10.1-STABLE base without much issue,
> kern_timeout.c was actually the only piece with some easily resolvable
> rejections.
>
> I've had a box running stable under load with this patch for a few
> days, and 10 more have just been added to the rotation.  Anyway just
> figured you might be interested in the some feedback while the changes
> are reviewed.
>

Hi,

Thank your for testing this patch. Any updates?

--HPS