Re: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix wait_dll_lock_timed for rodata

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Hi,

* Woodruff, Richard <r-woodruff2@xxxxxx> [160210 20:50]:
> > From: Sasha Levin [mailto:sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:11 AM
> > To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stable-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren; Kees Cook; Laura Abbott; Menon, Nishanth; Woodruff,
> > Richard; Russell King; Kristo, Tero; Sasha Levin
> > Subject: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix
> > wait_dll_lock_timed for rodata
> 
> > As these counters are for debugging only and unused, we can just
> > remove them.
> 
> This statement is false.

Care to check again with the mainline kernel? All the mainline
code was doing was incrementing these.

> The kick counters were there to work around HW quirks/bugs not for any kind of debugging.  Code in this area was added reactively to customer production failures not for expirmentation.
> 
> It seems likely the assembly with some effort could be made to keep its function.

It sounds like we have never had those pieces in the mainline
kernel though?

Regards,

Tony
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