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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: rwlock.h fix smp alternatives fix
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:00:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831180018.GB20873@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608311221_MC3-1-C9EE-3548@compuserve.com>

* Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com) wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <200608311011.45844.ak@suse.de>
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:45 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Here's the patch as intended for reference :/ Or Chris' incremental
> > is fine.
> > 
> > i386: Remove alternative_smp
> > 
> > The .fill causes miscompilations with some binutils version.
> 
> Has the dust settled enough to prepare a patch for -stable now?

Seems so, although Linus hasn't fixed upstream yet.  The binutils
issues look worrisome enough, miscompilation should certainly be fixed
in -stable.  And we should get both i386 and the x86_64 fix as well.
I'll add those unless Andi objects.

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 16:17 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-31 18:00 ` Chris Wright [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-31  7:53 Chris Wright
2006-08-31  8:11 ` Andi Kleen

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