Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937625Ab3DJWyt (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:54:49 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:44479 "EHLO mail-vc0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937317Ab3DJWyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:54:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130410224342.778004071@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130410224333.114387235@linuxfoundation.org> <20130410224342.778004071@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:54:44 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: KZblAK9pdvzChjTiPTYuCX1pRyk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ 41/64] spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers From: Linus Torvalds To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 17 On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Note for stable: use discretion when/if applying this. As mentioned, > this bug may never have actually bitten anybody, and gcc may never have > done the required code motion for it to possibly ever trigger in > practice. No objections, I just wanted to make sure the stable people had noticed this message to them... Linus -- 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/