This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc64: Make itc_sync_lock raw to the 3.4-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: sparc64-make-itc_sync_lock-raw.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Aug 7 22:33:35 PDT 2014 From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:45:24 +0400 Subject: sparc64: Make itc_sync_lock raw From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 49b6c01f4c1de3b5e5427ac5aba80f9f6d27837a ] One more place where we must not be able to be preempted or to be interrupted in RT. Always actually disable interrupts during synchronization cycle. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ void cpu_panic(void) #define NUM_ROUNDS 64 /* magic value */ #define NUM_ITERS 5 /* likewise */ -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(itc_sync_lock); +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(itc_sync_lock); static unsigned long go[SLAVE + 1]; #define DEBUG_TICK_SYNC 0 @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void smp_synchronize_one_tick(int go[MASTER] = 0; membar_safe("#StoreLoad"); - spin_lock_irqsave(&itc_sync_lock, flags); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&itc_sync_lock, flags); { for (i = 0; i < NUM_ROUNDS*NUM_ITERS; i++) { while (!go[MASTER]) @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static void smp_synchronize_one_tick(int membar_safe("#StoreLoad"); } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&itc_sync_lock, flags); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&itc_sync_lock, flags); } #if defined(CONFIG_SUN_LDOMS) && defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tkhai@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/sparc64-make-itc_sync_lock-raw.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html