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

[David Daney]

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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