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SubjectRe: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9
Hi Linus,

Em Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:09:28 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> escreveu:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:58 AM Hanna Hawa <hannah@marvell.com> wrote:
> >
> > After some debug/bisect/diff, found that patch "softirq: Let ksoftirqd
> > do its job" is problematic patch.
>
> Ok, this thread died down without any resolution.
>
> >- Using v4.14.0 (including softirq patch) and the additional fix
> > proposed by Linus - no timeout issue.
>
> Are you talking about the patch that made HI_SOFTIRQ and
> TASKLET_SOFTIRQ special, and had this:
>
> #define SOFTIRQ_NOW_MASK ((1 << HI_SOFTIRQ) | (1 << TASKLET_SOFTIRQ))
>
> in it?
>
> I think I'll just commit the damn thing. It's hacky, but it's simple,
> and it never got applied because we had smarter suggestions. But the
> smarter suggestions never ended up being applied either, so..

Yeah, IMHO the best would be to apply your patch[1], c/c stable up to
4.9. Nothing prevents applying a better/smarter solution once we
have it. From my side, I can keep testing whatever smart suggestions
people propose. Yet, better to have one fix on our hand than two
fixes flying around.

[1] e. g.
https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/commit/?h=v4.15%2bmedia%2bdwc2&id=ccf833fd4a5b99c3d3cf2c09c065670f74a230a7

Regards,
Mauro

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