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
