On 09/08/2014 03:17 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >>> I think the whole "removing Alpha EV5" support is basically bonkers. Just >>> use set_bit in the tty layer. Alpha will continue to work as well as it >>> always has done and you won't design out support for any future processor >>> that turns out not to do byte aligned stores. >>> >>> Alan >>> >> >> Is *that* what we are talking about? I was added to this conversation >> in the middle where it had already generalized, so I had no idea. >> >> -hpa > > Yes there are some flags in the tty layer that are vulnerable to this > (although they've been vulnerable to it and missing a lock since last > century with no known ill effects).
That observation cuts both ways; I'm willing to leave it vulnerable with 'no known ill effects' on the Alpha. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
