From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:08:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD0FC26.3030101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339095399.13377.2.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On 06/07/2012 11:56 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 10:50 -0700, David Daney wrote:
>> On 06/07/2012 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> From: Thomas Gleixner<tglx@linutronix.de>
>>>
>>> Instead of making the lock raw, remove it as it protects nothing.
>>
>> I don't know how you guys are managing the RT branch, but this seems
>> quite similar to:
>>
>> a3c8b4faeeccb33dbad6969bc9e50bf409f167e7 (MIPS: Cavium: Remove
>> smp_reserve_lock.)
>
> Great! Then we don't need to worry about it :-)
>
> But as it doesn't seem that this patch was marked as stable, we will be
> carrying it in -rt where we support older kernels.
>
> Should it go to mainline stable?
>
I don't think it is necessary. As far as I know, RT may be the only
thing that needs it.
David Daney
> -- Steve
>
>>
>> David Daney
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 15:51 [PATCH RT 0/4] [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.33-rt54-rc1 Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 15:51 ` [PATCH RT 1/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Use local_irq_save_nort() in qla2x00_poll Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 15:51 ` [PATCH RT 2/4] net,RT:REmove preemption disabling in netif_rx() Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 15:51 ` [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 17:50 ` David Daney
2012-06-07 18:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 19:08 ` David Daney [this message]
2012-06-07 19:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 19:47 ` David Daney
2012-06-07 15:51 ` [PATCH RT 4/4] Linux 3.0.33-rt54-rc1 Steven Rostedt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-07 15:42 [PATCH RT 0/4] [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.19-rt31-rc1 Steven Rostedt
2012-06-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch Steven Rostedt
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