Message-ID: <1339095399.13377.2.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>,
        John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4FD0E9F9.60906@gmail.com>
References: <20120607155148.698959275@goodmis.org>
	 <20120607155221.836885041@goodmis.org> <4FD0E9F9.60906@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 10:50 -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 08:51 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: Thomas Gleixner<tglx@linutronix.de>
> >
> > Instead of making the lock raw, remove it as it protects nothing.
> 
> I don't know how you guys are managing the RT branch, but this seems 
> quite similar to:
> 
> a3c8b4faeeccb33dbad6969bc9e50bf409f167e7 (MIPS: Cavium: Remove 
> smp_reserve_lock.)

Great! Then we don't need to worry about it :-)

But as it doesn't seem that this patch was marked as stable, we will be
carrying it in -rt where we support older kernels.

Should it go to mainline stable?

-- Steve

> 
> David Daney
> 


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