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    SubjectRe: [PATCH for review] [12/48] x86_64: use the global PIT lock
    On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
    > On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:22:38 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
    > > Hi Andi,
    > >
    > > On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    > > >
    > > > Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to serialize the
    > > > PIT access all over the place.
    > > >
    > >
    > > Like I said before I'd be more happy if spinlock was attached to a
    > > platform device that pcspkr binds to so the arch code would control
    > > wehther we use a private spinlock or a global one (I sent a patch to
    > > that effect earlier).
    >
    > Not sure that flexibility is needed. Why would an architecture ever want
    > to have more than one lock for this? And we normally don't need sysdevs
    > for locks, they seem to be quite unrelated.
    >

    I was not talking about sysdevs. I was talking about platform devices
    that are already being created for pcspkr by arch code. Now I want
    arch code to provide a spinlock for pcspkr driver to use when
    accessing PIT. What it does it allows to remove arch specific
    knowledge (i.e. #ifdef CONFIG_X86...) from the pcspkr driver.

    --
    Dmitry
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