On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:49:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Will Deacon wrote: > > > The additional patch should also be CC'd to stable and is sitting in -tip > > > somewhere I believe, so it shouldn't be long before it does hit mainline. > > > > > > Without this patch there's a memory-ordering bug (which we seem to have > > > hit > > > once in > 5 years). With the patch there's a mutex lockup issue on SMP > > > systems > > > that I can provoke with enough hackbenching, so you may want to hold off > > > for > > > now. > > Ah, ok, missed that. > > How about I just drop this for now, and when someone (Will?) feels it is > "good enough time to wait", they will resend it to > sta...@vger.kernel.org so that we can add it then? Otherwise I'll just > loose it somewhere.
Fine by me. It doesn't conflict with the other patch either, so it won't be a problem if you get that one first. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
