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

From: David Daney
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 15:08:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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




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