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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"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: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA01D26.3030906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiniAprv-rz0QQD540g7S1jbj8Na+e78Ro2R8Koa@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/26/2010 10:00 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Michael Shigorin<mike@osdn.org.ua>  wrote:
>>
>> The simplicity of adding that somewhat went over my head --
>> please find attached the corrected original patch against HEAD
>> with Signed-off-by: for both of us.  led@ didn't change cosmetics
>> -- thanks for providing it anyways.
>
> Ok, I think this patch is probably the right thing to do at this stage
> - and we should think about trying to see if we can improve code
> generation later.
>
> So: "Acked-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>"
>
> Ingo/Thomas/Peter - I can take this either from the x86 tree, or
> directly. Just let me know. Or do you have any alternate suggestions
> that would be appropriate?
>

(Back home now)

Yes, this patch is clearly The Right Thing.  I'll add it to the -tip 
tree and assuming no unexpected problems will send you a pull request 
tomorrow.

	-hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27  4:27 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
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 [this message]

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