----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg KH" <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > To: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> > Cc: "Huang Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul > McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, > "David Howells" <dhowe...@redhat.com>, "Pranith Kumar" > <bobby.pr...@gmail.com>, sta...@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:16:25 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing lockless_dereference() > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > A lockless_dereference() appears to be missing in llist_del_first(). > > It should only matter for Alpha in practice. > > Meta-comment, do we really care about Alpha anymore? Is it still > consered an "active" arch we support? I haven't seen a single > alpha-related stable patch in _years_ if at all, which implies to me > that no one is even using it. > > Not that stable patches for architectures are a valid reference for how > much they are used, but it does give me a good indication of what arches > have users that actually care about a modern (i.e. within the past 5 > years) kernel.
Good question. Adding the Alpha maintainers to the CC. Thanks, Mathieu > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- 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/
