linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.12 040/142] s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning

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Message-ID: <5425404F.80508@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:30:39 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 040/142] s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning

On 09/26/2014 12:20 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 09/26/2014, 12:06 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 09/26/2014 11:44 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
>>>
>>> 3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>
>> I just checked.
>>
>> It seems that the referenced commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc
>> (locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures)
>> is not part of 3.12-stable. So this fix is not (yet) necessary.
> 
> Hi, thanks for checking. However as far as I can see, 4badad352a6 is in
> 3.12.26 already, right?
> 
> thanks,
> 
Right. I was looking at kernel/git/jirislaby/linux-stable.git, but I checked the master branch and not the 3.12 stable branch.. Sorry for the noise.

Christian

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