Messages in this thread | | | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: Patch "asm-generic/bitops/lock.h: Rewrite using atomic_fetch_" causes kernel crash | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:30:50 +0000 |
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On 08/30/2018 01:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> >> Indeed this is the mother of all issues, I tried and system is clearly hosed with >> and works after. >> What's amazing is the commit 4aef66c8ae9 which introduced it is from 2016 ;-) >> Back then we had a retry branch with backoff stuff which I'd reverted for new >> cores and the merge conflict somehow missed it. >> >> @PeterZ I'll create a patch with you as author ? do I need any formal sign offs, >> acks etc ? > Well, Will spotted it, give authorship to him, you have my ack per the > above.
Oops, sorry for the mixup. I have him as author now and pushed to ARC for-curr (will trickle into linux-next eventually).
> FWIW, also ACK on Will's patch to switch you over to asm-generic bitops > entirely.
Yeah I'll get it to that and your's after the clear_bit_lock stuff - sorry for hijacking this thread to that topic now
-Vineet
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