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Message-Id: <20090214.234619.95630749.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:46:19 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, gospo@...hat.com,
david.graham@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] Remove mutex_trylock and associated WARN on
failure.
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:53:10 -0800
> Single-thread access must be ensured for ICH8 NVM and PHY operations.
> This synchronization is provided by the nvm_mutex. To assist in
> understanding the contexts from which this code could be reached,
> a WARN was output if the mutex was not going to be immediately
> acquirable (if !mutex_trylock()). The code has now been optimized,
> and we have verified that the few remaining mutex contentions are
> reasonable and non-blocking, and it is time to remove the
> mutex_trylock() and WARN messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: dave graham <david.graham@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Applied.
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