Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:59:08 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rt][RESEND] spin lock imbalance in ibm emac |
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* 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.
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