Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:59:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RFC: change do_timer() to take xtime lock, and provide do_timer_locked() |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Torben Hohn wrote:
> in an effort to reduce occurrences of xtime_lock in the codebase, > this commit makes do_timer take the xtime lock. > > there are quite some occurences where arch code seems to protect > other datastructures with this lock too. > we provide do_timer_locked() for these occurences. > > however, for this change to make sense, we should try to get rid > of most calls to do_timer_locked() > gonna try to address that in other arch specific commits.
Please see my other mail. We really don't want all that churn in one large commit.
Thanks,
tglx
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