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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Breeds <tonyb@au1.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:35:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272494121.24542.113.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004281406.04080.arnd@arndb.de>

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 14:06 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> This needs to use time_before() to avoid problems on jiffies
> wraparound.

Ah right, forgot about that, been a while I didn't use jiffies for
anything :-)

I'll respin later today.

Cheers,
Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  4:38 [PATCH/RFC] mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-28  4:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-28 12:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-28 22:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-05-07  4:20     ` Tony Breeds
2010-05-07  5:30       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-07  6:01         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-07 21:29           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-07 22:27             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10  7:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-11 18:06                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-11 18:19                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-11 21:13                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-07  6:16         ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-11 15:43       ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Tony Breeds
2010-05-11 23:05         ` Tony Breeds
2010-05-18 16:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-18 16:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19  5:46           ` Tony Breeds
2010-05-19  7:56             ` [tip:core/urgent] " tip-bot for Tony Breeds

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