On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 10:30:44PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > A lockless_dereference() appears to be missing in llist_del_first(). > > > It should only matter for Alpha in practice. What could one anticipate to be the symptoms of such a missing lockless_dereference()? The Alpha kernel is behaving pretty well provided one builds a machine specific kernel and UP. When running an SMP kernel some packages (most notably the java runtime, but there are a few others) occasionally lock up in a pthread call --- could be a problem in libc rather then the kernel. > > Meta-comment, do we really care about Alpha anymore? Is it still > > consered an "active" arch we support? There are a few of us still running recent kernels on Alpha. I am maintaining the unofficial Debian alpha port at debian-ports, and the Debian popcon shows about 10 installations of Debian Alpha. Cheers Michael. -- 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