On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 19:45 -0500, John David Anglin wrote: > Attached is new version of patch which no longer saves and restores > %sr1. Lightly tested with a GCC build > and a build of Debian gtk+3.0 package. I can merge it with your previous changelog, but for ease of git users, the accepted format is <patch description for git> --- <Any other details you don't want in git> git ignores everything after the three dashes on a single line. So your preamble should be (I also added an explanation of why we think the problem is occurring): This patch goes a long way toward fixing the minifail bug, and it significantly improves the stability of SMP machines such as the rp3440. When write protecting a page for COW, we need to purge the existing translation. Otherwise, the COW break doesn't occur as expected because the TLB may still have a stale entry which allows writes. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> --- v2: Attached is new version of patch which no longer saves and restores %sr1. Lightly tested with a GCC build and a build of Debian gtk+3.0 package. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html