linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] mips-remove-smp-reserve-lock.patch

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@...utronix.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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