linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] synchronize

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Message-Id: <1193001005.6745.34.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:10:05 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] synchronize_irq needs a barrier


 .../...

> This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
> > locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Good for me.
> 
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Hrm... not on yet. Herbert, care to resend, looks like it fell down the
wrong hole in Linus mailbox :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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