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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:32:26 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
Cc:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	horms@...ge.net.au, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, ak@...e.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cfriesen@...tel.com,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	rpjday@...dspring.com, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, zlynx@....org,
	clameter@....com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	wensong@...ux-vs.org, wjiang@...ilience.com
Subject: Re: your mail

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:06:00AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> 
> that are:
> 
> 	while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) {
> 		mdelay(1);
> 		msecs--;
> 	}
> 
> where mdelay() becomes __const_udelay() which happens to be in another
> translation unit (arch/i386/lib/delay.c) and hence saves this callsite
> from being a bug :-)

The udelay itself certainly should have some form of cpu_relax in it.

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