Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756104Ab3E0Rus (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 13:50:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45441 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755928Ab3E0Rur (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 13:50:47 -0400 Message-ID: <51A39CEE.9030303@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:50:38 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130514 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Manfred Spraul , LKML , Andrew Morton , Davidlohr Bueso , hhuang@redhat.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/sem.c: Bug fixes, regression fixes, v3 References: <1369559335-13491-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> <20130527020459.GA7365@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130527020459.GA7365@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 22 On 05/26/2013 10:04 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:08:51AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: >> I've split my patch into 4 parts: >> - 1: Fix-missing-wakeups-in-do_smart_update >> - 2: seperate-wait-for-zero-and-alter-tasks >> - 3: Always-use-only-one-queue-for-alter-operations >> - 4: Rename-try_atomic_semop-to-perform_atomic >> >> Linus: >> - Patch 1 should be merged immediately: It fixes bugs, >> the current code misses wakeups. > > Should this patch be backported to 3.9 and maybe older kernels as well? No need, the new semaphore code (with this last regression) did not get merged until the 3.10 merge window. -- 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/