From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:56:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from vigor.karmaclothing.net ([217.169.26.28]:59308 "EHLO vigor.karmaclothing.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20177455AbYGDL4Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:56:25 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by vigor.karmaclothing.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m64BsZvR019412; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:55:00 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m64BsRO8019405; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:54:27 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:54:27 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: ths@networkno.de, mlarsen@broadcom.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Bug in atomic_sub_if_positive Message-ID: <20080704115427.GA992@linux-mips.org> References: <20080702095955.GA7007@networkno.de> <20080702.193133.211490377.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> <20080702105155.GC7007@networkno.de> <20080704.000426.39153587.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080704.000426.39153587.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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: 19716 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:04:26AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:51:55 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > The patch looks correct. > > > > Agreed. > > Ralf, too late for 2.6.26? Pull request to Linus is out. > Anyway I think it should go into -stable tree too. It is. This one is important. Heck, I don't get how a kernel can be as reliable as it was with an elefant like this :-) Ralf