From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Re: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing lockless_dereference() Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1117480383.90061.1423348244225.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> References: <1423274934-10625-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20150207221625.GB31119@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150207221625.GB31119@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Greg KH , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner Cc: Huang Ying , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul McKenney , David Howells , Pranith Kumar , stable@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg KH" > To: "Mathieu Desnoyers" > Cc: "Huang Ying" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul McKenney" , > "David Howells" , "Pranith Kumar" , stable@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:16:25 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing lockless_dereference() > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > A lockless_dereference() appears to be missing in llist_del_first(). > > It should only matter for Alpha in practice. > > Meta-comment, do we really care about Alpha anymore? Is it still > consered an "active" arch we support? I haven't seen a single > alpha-related stable patch in _years_ if at all, which implies to me > that no one is even using it. > > Not that stable patches for architectures are a valid reference for how > much they are used, but it does give me a good indication of what arches > have users that actually care about a modern (i.e. within the past 5 > years) kernel. Good question. Adding the Alpha maintainers to the CC. Thanks, Mathieu > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com