From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:04:53 -0800 Subject: Possible arm64 patches for stable In-Reply-To: <20131220172827.GZ31886@sirena.org.uk> References: <20131220172827.GZ31886@sirena.org.uk> Message-ID: <20131231060453.GA22732@kroah.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 05:28:27PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > Hi, > > While reading the kernel logs for arm64 (as one does) I noticed a few > patches that seemed like candidates for either LTS or LTSI. I've also > had a couple of others mentioned via other routes. What do you think of > these? > > 4ecf7ccb1973 arm64: spinlock: retry trylock operation if strex fails on free lock > > This seems like a correctness fix for spinlocks, though since the > callers should cope with failure it's arguably just an optimisation. I've applied this one to 3.10-stable and will look over the others when I catch up on my larger patch queue, thanks. greg k-h