Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:36:56 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock |
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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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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