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Message-ID: <20080428131332.GA3723@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:13:32 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: missing locking in sched_domains code


* Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:

> > version 42. Please feel free to change the comment if you think it could
> > be better :)
> 
> I don't believe this... version 43 ;) I forgot to add the lock in 
> sched_init_smp(). Not that it would really matter, but it should be 
> there to avoid (even more) confusion.

hey i just had to iterate it to version 44.

this bit:

> -/* doms_cur_mutex serializes access to doms_cur[] array */
> -static DEFINE_MUTEX(doms_cur_mutex);
> +/* sched_domains_mutex serializes calls to arch_init_sched_domains,
> + * detach_destroy_domains and partition_sched_domains.
> + */
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(sched_domains_mutex);

was inside an #ifdef section ;-)

	Ingo
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