Messages in this thread | | | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: spin_lock after get_cpu_var() | Date | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:12:45 +0100 |
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Hi Peter,
"Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> writes:
> I find it quite puzzling (no where else in kernel source is this > found) that you would want to apply spin_lock() after get_cpu_var(). > The fddef is already percpu, so there is no need to lock it, right? > > I submitted this patch before, but got no response, just trying my > luck this time :-).
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/14/208
Hannes
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