From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992984AbXCIFZZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:25:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992983AbXCIFZZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:25:25 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60999 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992982AbXCIFZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:25:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:25:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070308.212523.45514581.davem@davemloft.net> To: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mbligh@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sparc TIF_USEDFPU flag atomicity From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070309031227.GC9462@Krystal> References: <20070309031227.GC9462@Krystal> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:12:27 -0500 > Fix sparc TIF_USEDFPU flag atomicity > > Non atomic update of TIF can be very dangerous, except at thread structure > creation time. Here I standardize the TIF_USEDFPU usage of the sparc arch. > > Applies on 2.6.20. > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Also applied, thanks a lot.