On 2018-12-13 09:39:46 [-0500], Sasha Levin wrote: > 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. so v4.4 was easy peasy, v4.9 required a little work. So let me worry about v4.14 and v4.19 next. > Hrm, there was something really fishy with the headers on your original > mail... Interesting and I'm sorry. So infradead.org rejected all of my emails saying something similar but I have no clue what went wrong. Sebastian