From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757021Ab1BJV5Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:57:16 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:39458 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752172Ab1BJV5P (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:57:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:57:10 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH powerpc 0/2] powerpc CONFIG_PREEMPT fixes Message-ID: <20110210215710.GA18429@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! This series provides fixes for a couple of CONFIG_PREEMPT problems on Power: 1. The hpte_need_flush() function accesses per-CPU variables without protection. 2. The rtas_event_scan() function needs to use raw_smp_processor_id() to get a starting point to avoid debugging splats. There are probably a few more where these came from. ;-) Thanx, Paul