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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:08:22 -0700 From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> 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 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<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? > 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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