lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2012]   [Aug]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [ 20/82] ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:49:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Will Deacon wrote:
> > > The additional patch should also be CC'd to stable and is sitting in -tip
> > > somewhere I believe, so it shouldn't be long before it does hit mainline.
> > >
> > > Without this patch there's a memory-ordering bug (which we seem to have hit
> > > once in > 5 years). With the patch there's a mutex lockup issue on SMP systems
> > > that I can provoke with enough hackbenching, so you may want to hold off for
> > > now.
>
> Ah, ok, missed that.
>
> How about I just drop this for now, and when someone (Will?) feels it is
> "good enough time to wait", they will resend it to
> stable@vger.kernel.org so that we can add it then? Otherwise I'll just
> loose it somewhere.

Fine by me. It doesn't conflict with the other patch either, so it won't be
a problem if you get that one first.

Will


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2012-08-15 17:43    [W:0.106 / U:0.904 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site