From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:45:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:38526 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27006674AbaHZJpVong1w (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:45:21 +0200 Received: from KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (unknown [192.168.5.35]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id A162B274A3237; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:45:12 +0100 (IST) Received: from LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) by KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:45:14 +0100 Received: from [192.168.154.158] (192.168.154.158) by LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:45:13 +0100 Message-ID: <53FC5729.7060306@imgtec.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:45:13 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaro Koskinen , Ralf Baechle CC: James Hogan , Stephen Rothwell , linux-mips , "Aurelien Jarno" , "Markos (GMail)" , Paul , Rob Kendrick , Alex Smith , Huacai Chen Subject: Re: Please add my temporary MIPS fixes branch to linux-next References: <53D9169D.3020705@imgtec.com> <53E8A470.1050603@imgtec.com> <20140823202447.GB6818@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20140823202447.GB6818@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.158] Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 42246 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On 08/23/2014 09:24 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:09:36PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >> On 30/07/14 17:00, James Hogan wrote: >>> Hi Stephen & MIPS people >>> >>> v3.16 is fast approaching and there are quite a few important MIPS >>> patches pending. Since Ralf appears to be unavailable at the moment I've >>> reviewed and applied some of those patches which are least controversial >>> to a fixes branch with the intention of sending a pull request to Ralf & >>> Linus so that one of them can hopefully merge it before the release. >> >> I sent you a pull request for these fixes prior to v3.16 but >> unfortunately they still missed the release, and only two of the patches >> were applied in the main v3.17 MIPS merge. >> >> What are you intentions for the remaining fixes from Markos & Aaro? > > Ralf, any comments? I think at least this fix is imporant, > because currently users can hang OCTEON systems simply by lauching > multiple readers of the proc file: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips.git/commit/?id=08a9c3c9afcf6e8975fc1c9a97e871e6a039c25a > > A. > Hi, I plan to send GregKH another set of fixes to backport to 3.16, and since this patch is now in mainline[1], I will include this one as well. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d -- markos