[PATCH 02/14] ARM: bitops: switch set/clear/change bitops to use ldrex/strex

Poddar, Sourav sourav.poddar at ti.com
Mon Jan 24 08:47:54 EST 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:27:24PM +0530, Poddar, Sourav wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Poddar, Sourav <sourav.poddar at ti.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> >>> At least another person did post results:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://mid.gmane.org/20110117094602.GA2622@pulham.picochip.com
>> >>> http://mid.gmane.org/20110117110308.GC2622@pulham.picochip.com
>> >>
>> >> Slightly different patch - there were three revisions.  I can't attach
>> >> a tested-by given to a different patch to this one.
>> >>
>> >>> > That means omap2plus_defconfig .38 mainline kernels
>> >>> > (including -stable) will remain potentially dangerous when run on
>> >>> > SMP capable hardware.
>> >>>
>> >>> I must admit that this series looks a bit large for stable IMHO.  I
>> >>> think that the fix for stable should limit itself only to prevent SMP
>> >>> from being selected if anything else than CPU_32v6K is selected.
>> >>
>> >> The first three are the bare minimum required for -stable.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>  Boot tested the 14 patch series  with CONFIG_SWP_EMULATE enabled, on
>>  the following boards :
>>
>>
>>   1. Omap2420 SDP
>>
>>   2. Omap2430 SDP
>>
>>   3. Omap3430 SDP
>>
>>   4. Omap4 Blaze
>>
>>   Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar at ti.com>
>
> Thanks.  It's also important to ascertain which filesystems were tested -
> could you let me know please?
>

It is a custom filesystem on BusyBox v1.17.2.
Please let me know if you need some other
information.



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