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

Poddar, Sourav sourav.poddar at ti.com
Mon Jan 24 09:54:41 EST 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 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?

No.

>> 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.
>

nfs filesystem.



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