Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rt][RESEND] spin lock imbalance in ibm emac | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:05:17 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Sent this a long time ago, still exists. > > > > > > > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> > > > > > > hm, what does this do, and why isnt it upstream? > > > > AFAIK, those locks are added in -rt . I'm not sure how they got in > > there, but they fix that driver when running in a thread. The driver > > has unsafe SMP locking, but the only system it runs on (PPC4xx) is > > uniprocessor. So it's not broken upstream per se. > > ok, i've applied your patch.
What about the OMAP fix? that one's been sitting around for a while too.
Daniel
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