Re: Patch "ACPICA: Namespace: Fix deadlock triggered by MLC support in dynamic table loading ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:23:05AM +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> Hi, Greg
> 
> > From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Subject: Patch "ACPICA: Namespace: Fix deadlock triggered by MLC
> > support in dynamic table loading ACPICA: Add per-table execution of
> > module-level code" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree
> > 
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     ACPICA: Namespace: Fix deadlock triggered by MLC support in dynamic
> > table loading
> >   ACPICA: Add per-table execution of module-level code
> [Lv Zheng] 
> The issue cannot be fixed by such a simple change.
> It finally triggered many namespace locking issues in ACPICA and required big changes.
> I'm waiting for ACPICA upstream's confirmation for another fix proposal.
> And this fix is reverted from the Linux upstream during this period:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?id=ffd8d618
> 
> Here is the sotry for your reference:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121701
> 
> Please do not make this commit a stable material.
> Sorry for the problem.

Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped it from the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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