linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock,
 text_poke is sleepable



On Thu, 1 May 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> Yep. I think using a mutex should fix it. There is no reason to use a
> spinlock rather than a mutex here.

Is there any reason to do any locking what-so-ever?

If this code could possibly race with something else, that sounds like a 
bug in itself, no?

		Linus
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