On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:33:36AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:09:15PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is a backport of commit 7aa54be297655 ("locking/qspinlock, x86:
> > Provide liveness guarantee") for the v4.9 stable tree.
> > For the v4.4 tree the ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS option got disabled on
> > x86.
> > For v4.9 it has been decided to do a minimal backport of the final fix
> > (including all its dependencies).
> > With this backport I can't reproduce the issue in the latest v4.9-RT
> > tree. I was able to boot (and use) an arm64 box with these patches so it
> > is not broken in an abvious way.
>
> What about 4.14? I see that at least some of these patches are missing
> there.
4.14 can have a simpler backport indeed
