On 07.04.2014 11:18, Thierry Reding wrote: > If I understand correctly there's no immediate need for this to go to > stable kernels, nor for it to be queued for 3.15, right? That is the > potential extra write isn't causing any harm on actual hardware, is it? > > In that case I'll queue this up for 3.16.
The reads and writes would get ignored on 32-bit kernel. The change does fix sync point behavior in 64-bit kernel, so it is fixing a real issue. Terje
