Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:02:50 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock |
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>>> Matt Fleming 08/04/11 5:37 PM >>> >On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 03:22 -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? > >Jan wrote the original code that started using the rtc_lock inside the >EFI bits here, ef68c8f87ed1 ("x86: Serialize EFI time accesses on >rtc_lock"). > >Jan?
Matthew Garrett already replied to this - it's (on x86) a requirement of the EFI spec.
Jan
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