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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:59:17 -0400 From: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> Cc: ulli.kroll@...glemail.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixes gemmi_idle in file idle.c Thanks for the good feedback on kernel development , I will delete this file in order to clean up race conditions caused by it. Cheers Nick On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:52:40PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: >> disables the IRQ line in gemmi_idle before calling cpu_do_idle. >> In addition, according to the Fixme message in this file fixes >> races that may occur due to not disabling the IRQ before calling >> cpu_do_idle. > > 1) the idle method is called with interrupts already disabled. > 2) I wonder if you read the comment above the comment you removed, and > if so, why it wasn't removed. > 3) can you indicate how the hardware problem has been fixed, or give some > justification why this change should be accepted. > > -- > FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly > improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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