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

Poddar, Sourav sourav.poddar at ti.com
Mon Jan 24 03:57:24 EST 2011


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>



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