RCU bug with v3.17-rc3 ?

[Olof Johansson]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:54:16AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:23:10PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> > > As I said, I have a patch in progress, but it seems that there needed
>> > > to be some discussion about exactly which compiler versions are affected.
>> > > It seems that it's not as trivial as looking at the GCC bug entry.
>> >
>> > ... and in any case, it has been a known bug for well over a year now,
>> > and it seems that it doesn't affect _that_ many people.  So taking some
>> > extra time to get it properly correct is the _right_ thing to do.
>>
>> Well, this is just great.  Pushing out the change which blacklists these
>> compilers takes out Olof's kernel build system...
>>
>> Things are not as trivial as they seem.
>
> Maybe Olof just needs to update his compiler. Olof ?

Yep, doing a run with 4.9.1 to see how it looks. In the past, 4.9 has
been really noisy with warnings, maybe most of them have been fixed by
now.


-Olof