Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937579Ab3DJXAr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:00:47 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f51.google.com ([209.85.160.51]:50540 "EHLO mail-pb0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937489Ab3DJXA1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:00:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:25 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [ 41/64] spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers Message-ID: <20130410230025.GA4750@kroah.com> References: <20130410224333.114387235@linuxfoundation.org> <20130410224342.778004071@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 22 On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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... Yeah, I saw it, and it looks like a valid thing to apply. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/