Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:30:44 +0000 (UTC) | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing lockless_dereference() |
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----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > To: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> > Cc: "Huang Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, > "David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>, "Pranith Kumar" <bobby.prani@gmail.com>, stable@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 >
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