This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue to the 6.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-qspinlock-fix-deadlock-in-mcs-queue.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.