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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Owen Kibel <qmewlo@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"atodorov@redhat.com" <atodorov@redhat.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:15:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140425131525.GA27668@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425084723.GA7455@gchen.bj.intel.com>


* Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:07:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Okay, so AFAICS the fix in x86/urgent isn't wrong functionally, it's 
> > just that the changelog incorrectly claims the raw-spinlock use is a 
> > bug causing a problem here.
> > 
> > Still that raw spinlock is bogus and might be hiding other problems, 
> > so we can keep the x86/urgent change (ea431643d6c3) as-is and I'll get 
> > it to Linus later today ...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> Hi, Ingo
> 
> We ever had a patch(59d958d2c7) to make spinlock -> raw_spinlock.
> Would you please explain it a little more why you revert it?

It was years ago and I forgot about that. Should be redone I guess.

Thanks,

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17  9:57 [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 10:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 14:03     ` Luck, Tony
2014-04-17 15:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 16:54         ` Josh Boyer
2014-04-17 19:23           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 19:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-17 19:42               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 20:58                 ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]                   ` <CAK7FoDt6tnknX7cioe7=2svVksyAyLUtoZX_oprzJNxoHZEpdw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17 21:30                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 22:20                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-18  8:07                         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18  9:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-25  8:47                           ` Chen, Gong
2014-04-25 13:15                             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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