Re: [3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures" has been added to staging queue

From: Andev
Date: Wed Aug 06 2014 - 17:25:14 EST


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
>
> locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures
>
> to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
> which can be found at:
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
>
> This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.
>

This patch is specifically for parisc, sparc32, tile32, metag-lock1,
arc-!llsc and hexagon none of which Ubuntu supports.

Why are you backporting this patch?

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