Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755607AbaDGROj (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:14:39 -0400 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:35383 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755579AbaDGROb (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:14:31 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,811,1389744000"; d="scan'208";a="117566235" Message-ID: <5342DCF3.7080408@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 18:14:27 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20121215 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: , , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Steven Rostedt , , Boris Ostrovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/spinlock: Don't enable them unconditionally. References: <1396637284-6312-1-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1396637284-6312-1-git-send-email-konrad@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.80.2.76] X-DLP: MIA1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/04/14 19:48, konrad@kernel.org wrote: > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > The git commit a945928ea2709bc0e8e8165d33aed855a0110279 > ('xen: Do not enable spinlocks before jump_label_init() has executed') > was added to deal with the jump machinery. Earlier the code > that turned on the jump label was only called by Xen specific > functions. But now that it had been moved to the initcall machinery > it gets called on Xen, KVM, and baremetal - ouch!. And the detection > machinery to only call it on Xen wasn't remembered in the heat > of merge window excitement. > > This means that the slowpath is enabled on baremetal while it should > not be. Applied to devel/for-linus-3.15. Thanks. David -- 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/