From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from muru.com ([72.249.23.125]:33653 "EHLO muru.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750863AbcBKQUx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:20:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:20:51 -0800 From: Tony Lindgren To: "Woodruff, Richard" Cc: Sasha Levin , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "stable-commits@vger.kernel.org" , Kees Cook , Laura Abbott , "Menon, Nishanth" , Russell King , "Kristo, Tero" Subject: Re: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix wait_dll_lock_timed for rodata Message-ID: <20160211162050.GG3500@atomide.com> References: <1455117136-28870-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1455117136-28870-177-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, * Woodruff, Richard [160210 20:50]: > > From: Sasha Levin [mailto:sasha.levin@oracle.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:11 AM > > To: stable@vger.kernel.org; stable-commits@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: Tony Lindgren; Kees Cook; Laura Abbott; Menon, Nishanth; Woodruff, > > Richard; Russell King; Kristo, Tero; Sasha Levin > > Subject: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix > > wait_dll_lock_timed for rodata > > > As these counters are for debugging only and unused, we can just > > remove them. > > This statement is false. Care to check again with the mainline kernel? All the mainline code was doing was incrementing these. > The kick counters were there to work around HW quirks/bugs not for any kind of debugging. Code in this area was added reactively to customer production failures not for expirmentation. > > It seems likely the assembly with some effort could be made to keep its function. It sounds like we have never had those pieces in the mainline kernel though? Regards, Tony