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

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:17:54PM +0530, Poddar, Sourav wrote:
> 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.

So you wrote code under fs/ for this filesystem?

> Please let me know if you need some other
> information.

I'm trying to find out what _type_ of filesystem.  ext2, ext3, nfs, cramfs,
etc.