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 <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Aug  7 22:33:35 PDT 2014
From: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:45:24 +0400
Subject: sparc64: Make itc_sync_lock raw

From: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>

[ 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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 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 [email protected] are

queue-3.4/sparc64-make-itc_sync_lock-raw.patch
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