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Re: [PATCH, LIBITM] Backport libitm bug fixes to FSF 4.8


On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:48 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 19:32 -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > I'd like to ask for permission to backport the following two LIBITM bug
> > fixes to the FSF 4.8 branch.  Although these are not technically fixing
> > regressions, they do fix the libitm.c/reentrant.c testsuite failure on
> > s390 and powerpc (or at least it will when we finally get our power8
> > code backported to FSF 4.8).  It also fixes a real bug on x86 that is
> > latent because we don't currently have a test case that warms up the
> > x86's RTM hardware enough such that its xbegin succeeds exposing the
> > bug.  I'd like this backport so that the 4.8 based distros won't need
> > to carry this as an add-on patch.
> > 
> > It should also be fairly safe as well, since the fixed code is limited
> > to the arches (x86, s390 and powerpc) that define USE_HTM_FASTPATH,
> > so all others definitely won't see a difference.
> 
> Looks good to me.

Ok, committed as revision 208295.  Thanks everyone!

Peter



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