Re: [ 41/64] spinlocks and preemption points need to be at leastcompiler barriers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 10 2013 - 19:00:49 EST


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Note for stable: use discretion when/if applying this. As mentioned,
> > this bug may never have actually bitten anybody, and gcc may never have
> > done the required code motion for it to possibly ever trigger in
> > practice.
>
> No objections, I just wanted to make sure the stable people had
> noticed this message to them...

Yeah, I saw it, and it looks like a valid thing to apply.

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/