[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures" has been added to staging queue

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Andev wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> >
> >     locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures
> >
> > to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
> > which can be found at:
> >
> >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
> >
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.
> >
> 
> This patch is specifically for parisc, sparc32, tile32, metag-lock1,
> arc-!llsc and hexagon none of which Ubuntu supports.
> 
> Why are you backporting this patch?
> 
> --
> Andev

I guess - it's less time consuming to backport all patches for stable than 
to ponder on each patch if it applies to Ubuntu or not...

Mikulas