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

[Linus Torvalds]

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...

             Linus
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