Re: [PATCH 00/11] 4.10 Fix Priority Inheritance Protocol

2018-03-23 Thread Gedare Bloom
Hello all, In terms of prioritizing any code review, I think that mainly the new code is in patches 02, 03 (two new test cases), and 10, 11 (the fix). The other commits are back-porting existing test cases from 4.11 or master into 4.10, and deleting any test code that is not relevant to 4.10 requi

[PATCH 00/11] 4.10 Fix Priority Inheritance Protocol

2018-03-23 Thread Gedare Bloom
This patch series fixes the PIP as described in #3361 to allow for proper step-down of priority under: vertical nesting horizontal nesting lock timeouts, and lock flushing. A few commits backport tests from 4.11 and 5 (master) to the 4.10 branch to demonstrate the broken behavior of PIP.