[GIT PULL] Samsung devel-2 for v3.2

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:36:26AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It's possible it's something that doesn't manifest on that board, I've
> > no real idea what's exploding or why.  There's also a bunch of other
> > early boot problems right now like try_to_freeze() which aren't helping.

> I don't know whether I can solve that before the next merge window.
> There's lots of corner cases, and I'm no longer convinced that my
> previous patch doesn't introduce more problems than it solves (such
> as completely breaking the -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK handing.)

> While it's possible to shut up the warning by enabling IRQs, that makes
> the race for restarting (or not restarting) syscalls *huge*, and that
> could cause unexpected userspace behaviour depending on whether they
> handle EINTR and _how_ they handle EINTR on system calls which they
> expect would've been restarted by the kernel.

It looks like the patches to stop it happening constantly have been
applied so it's a much less serious problem than it was originally - we
can boot and run reasonably cleanly.  It's certainly not the crippling
issue it was originally.