From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (e23smtp08.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8117A1A0BA5 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:45 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:30:43 +1000 Received: from d23relay06.au.ibm.com (d23relay06.au.ibm.com [9.185.63.219]) by d23dlp01.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FF72CE806C for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay06.au.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id sB95UfEj36175964 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id sB95Uftf023562 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 Received: from ozlabs.au.ibm.com (ozlabs.au.ibm.com [9.192.253.14]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id sB95UfRb023555 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 Received: from localhost (haven.au.ibm.com [9.192.253.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 419EEA019A for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 (AEDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: Ian Munsie To: linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] CXL: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug In-reply-to: <1418026681-14787-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com> References: <1418026681-14787-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:30:41 +1100 Message-Id: <1418102853-sup-8926@delenn.ozlabs.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , This patch will definitely need to go to stable - we've run into issues a couple of times when something has gone wrong on an AFU and ended up taking down the whole system as a result of this bug. Cheers, -Ian