Re: [3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures" has been added to staging queue

On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 17:25 -0400, Andev wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Kamal Mostafa [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

This patch is specifically for parisc, sparc32, tile32, metag-lock1,
arc-!llsc and hexagon none of which Ubuntu supports.

Why are you backporting this patch?

On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 14:30 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

Well 3.13.y.z isn't an Ubuntu kernel, its upstream, and those archs
*are* supported.

Davidlohr's answer is correct: This is not an "Ubuntu kernel".

3.13.y.z is an "extended stable" kernel which follows the same rules as
the kernel.org official stable kernels.  It contains no Ubuntu-specific
patches, and supports the same arch's as mainline.

More details about this and the other Canonical-funded-and-hosted
"extended stable" kernel versions is available here:

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

 -Kamal