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From: Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Volodymyr G. Lukiianyk" <volodymyrgl@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Chumachenko <ledest@gmail.com>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: fs hang in 2.6.27.y | Fwd: [Bug 15658] New: [PATCH] x86 constant_test_bit() prone to misoptimization with gcc-4.4
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:05:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924070516.GJ15790@osdn.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923165022.6982ffc1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:50:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> (huge quote)

Andrew, huge THANKS for getting to this!

> Working around a gcc-4.4 bug is a good thing, and the patch
> cleans the code up anyway - is there a reason for casting away
> the `volatile const'?

We'll discuss this; I'm actually no kernel developer (a silly
local iso9660 patch in 1999, nothing more) but rather a proxy.

> We don't have a Signed-off-by: for this patch - it would be
> good to have one, please.  We should at least have yours, as
> you sent the patch.

OK, Greg already told us to do so for stable@ but things were
busy there as well.  We'll fix up.

> Also, we prefer to have real names in kernel commits.
> Does "Led" refer to Alexander Chumachenko?

Yes.

2 led: a signed-off patch, please? :)

-- 
 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
  ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27 21:36 fs hang in 2.6.27.y | Fwd: [Bug 15658] New: [PATCH] x86 constant_test_bit() prone to misoptimization with gcc-4.4 Michael Shigorin
2010-09-23 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-24  7:05   ` Michael Shigorin [this message]
2010-09-26 11:53   ` Michael Shigorin
2010-09-26 17:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-09-26 20:19       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27  4:27       ` H. Peter Anvin

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