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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm/fb-helper: Reduce READ_ONCE(master) to lockless_dereference"
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:05:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470981903.26902.9.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160811182647.GD3482@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


> Initial testing says that the change below must precede the change
> to the definition of lockless_dereference(), so the two should go
> together.

Indeed.

> If my upcoming testing of the two changes together pans out, I will
> give you a Tested-by -- I am guessing that you don't want to wait
> until the next merge window for these changes.

I don't mind hugely since I have a fix now, but this one actually
causes >1K warnings (including some "too many warnings!") for my build
(net/wireless and net/mac80211 only!) and drowns out the real ones...
I'm sure other parts of the tree are similarly affected.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-12  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11  9:50 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm/fb-helper: Reduce READ_ONCE(master) to lockless_dereference" Johannes Berg
2016-08-11  9:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] locking/barriers: suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference() Johannes Berg
2016-08-18 11:00   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/barriers: Suppress " tip-bot for Johannes Berg
2016-08-18 13:40   ` [tip:locking/urgent] " tip-bot for Johannes Berg
2016-08-11 10:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "drm/fb-helper: Reduce READ_ONCE(master) to lockless_dereference" Daniel Vetter
2016-08-11 18:26   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-08-12  6:05     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-08-12 18:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-12 19:15       ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-08-18 10:59 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Johannes Berg
2016-08-18 13:40 ` [tip:locking/urgent] " tip-bot for Johannes Berg

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