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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:22:24AM -0700, john stultz wrote:

> Sorry if this should be obvious, but is there a reason your not using
> your own internal lock for serializing the efi bits rather then using
> the rtc_lock?

On x86 systems the EFI clock is almost certainly the AT RTC, so it's
necessary to serialise accesses between EFI and the traditional clock
interface.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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