Re: [PATCH] s390: Remove obsolete bust_spinlock() implementation

Martin Schwidefsky
2018-11-27T07:39:41Z

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:02:12 +0100
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:17:48AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (11/22/18 15:15), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > The commit cefc8be82403cf ("Consolidate bust_spinlocks()") kept
> > > the s390-specific implementation because of the absence of CONFIG_VT.
> > > In fact, the only difference was calling console_unblank() instead of
> > > unblank_screen().
> > >
> > > The common implementation in lib/bust_spinlocks.c started to call
> > > unblank_screen() explicitly since the commit b61312d353da187
> > > ("oops handling: ensure that any oops is flushed to the mtdoops
> > > console").
> > >
> > > As a result, the custom implementation is not longer necessary.
> > > And we could get all the other improvements of the common
> > > implementation for free.
> >
> > I believe I sent a similar patch several weeks ago and it's
> > in s390 patch queue as of now, waiting for the next merge
> > window.
> >
> > lkml.kernel.org/r/20181025081108.GB26561@osiris
>
> Yes, it will be added soon to the features branch of the
> s390/linux.git repository on kernel.org and then hit linux-next.

The patch is now queued for the next merge window.

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