Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422953Ab3DFNeg (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:34:36 -0400 Received: from vaxjo.synopsys.com ([198.182.60.75]:46260 "EHLO vaxjo.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422919Ab3DFNee (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:34:34 -0400 Message-ID: <51602459.3040105@synopsys.com> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:04:17 +0530 From: Vineet Gupta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: CC: Linus Torvalds , Christian Ruppert , Pierrick Hascoet , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] Gaurantee spinlocks implicit barrier for !PREEMPT_COUNT References: <1364998282-21437-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com> <20130404152808.GB15261@ab42.lan> <515E54BD.2090300@synopsys.com> In-Reply-To: <515E54BD.2090300@synopsys.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.12.197.39] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 29 > On 04/05/2013 10:06 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Given that we are closing on 3.9 release, and that one/more of these patches fix a > real issue for us - can you please consider my earlier patch to fix > timer_pending() only for 3.9 [http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1508224.html] > This will be a localized / low risk change for this late in cycle. > > For 3.10 - assuming preempt_* change is blessed, we can revert this one and add > that fuller/better fix. > > What do you think ? > > Thx, > -Vineet > Ping ! Sorry for pestering, but one of the fixes is needed before 3.9 goes out. Simple localized fix: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1508224.html Better but risky: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1510885.html Thx, -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/