From: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 08:26:24 +0100
> Hi David, > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:32:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >> From: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> >> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:40:07 +0100 >> >> > This is a reposting of the patch series I sent previously to rework the >> > sparc32 page-table layout so that 'pmd_t' can be used safely with >> > READ_ONCE(): >> > >> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200324104005.11279-1-w...@kernel.org >> > >> > This is blocking the READ_ONCE() rework, which in turn allows us to >> > bump the minimum GCC version for building the kernel up to 4.8. >> >> Series applied to sparc-next, thanks Will. > > Thanks, although this was picked up by -tip a couple of days ago [1] since > the READ_ONCE() rework relies on it to avoid breaking the sparc32 build. > > It's obviously harmless to go in both trees, but if you don't need it for > anything then you may want to drop these to avoid duplicate commits in > mainline. ... > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=locking/kcsan Thanks for the heads up but I'll leave it in the sparc-next tree for now.
