Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761395Ab2FGTI0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:08:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:41926 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761349Ab2FGTIZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:08:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4FD0FC26.3030101@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:08:22 -0700 From: David Daney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users , Thomas Gleixner , Carsten Emde , John Kacur , Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch References: <20120607155148.698959275@goodmis.org> <20120607155221.836885041@goodmis.org> <4FD0E9F9.60906@gmail.com> <1339095399.13377.2.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1339095399.13377.2.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; 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: 1068 Lines: 39 On 06/07/2012 11:56 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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 >>> >>> 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? > I don't think it is necessary. As far as I know, RT may be the only thing that needs it. David Daney > -- Steve > >> >> David Daney >> > > -- 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/