Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:08:38 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 000/102] 3.10.6-stable review
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 10:00:56PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:33:29PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:20:30PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:56:36PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.6 release.
> > > > There are 102 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Just checked on my OpenBlocks AX3 (dual-core ARMv7 in thumbs mode),
> > > everything seems OK, I did not even notice any performance regression
> > > compared to 3.10.5 on syscall intensive workloads with the recent
> > > changes. I'm sure that I'm using the kuser helpers page since the
> > > system doesn't boot without. Also I did observe minor changes in
> > > /proc/self/maps, but I don't think they should have any impact, so
> > > all in all it's OK :
> > 
> > Wonderful, thanks so much for testing the arm stuff, I wasn't sure I got
> > it all correct in the backport.
> 
> Note that I have not tested in ARM mode nor on older archs. But I don't
> think it should change anything from what I've seen in the diffs.
> 
> > One of these days I'll get a system here that I can test arm changes
> > on...
> 
> Just get a Beaglebone Black, it's $45 and Cortex A8 (armv7). Well buy
> two, since you'll use the first one for hacking GPIOs to everything :-)
> 
>    http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

I have a pre-production version of this, but I don't think that
everything it needs to work is currently upstream :(

> If you want to do cool stuff, the AX3 is by far the best thing I've seen
> to date, really, but it's too expensive for a non-profit developer in my
> opinion :
> 
>    https://openblocks.plathome.com/form/obs_verification/input.html

Does it work with a "clean" upstream kernel.org release?

thanks,

greg k-h
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