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SubjectRe: [PATCH RT 08/22] Revert "x86: UV: raw_spinlock conversion"
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On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 09:35 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2018-09-05 08:28:02 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 4.14.63-rt41-rc1 stable review patch.
> > If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 2a9c45d8f89112458364285cbe2b0729561953f1 ]
> >
> > Drop the Ultraviolet patch. UV looks broken upstream for PREEMPT, too.
> > Mike is the only person I know that has such a thing and he isn't going
> > to fix this upstream (from 1526977462.6491.1.camel@gmx.de):
>
> I don't think that we need to propagate that revert for stable. I
> reverted it in the devel tree because nobody wanted this upstream and I
> couldn't test it. For that reason I didn't see the point for having it
> in the RT tree.
> However, if you want to revert it for stable, be my guest. It probably
> will have no impact and if it will people might step forward and fix it
> properly / upstream.

I'm in favor of reverting it as useless cruft. UV has been broken
forever wrt PREEMPT, and nobody cares. The original interest in UV RT
support evaporated while 2.6.33-rt was still current (and when getting
it working took a bit more than a spinlock conversion).

-Mike

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