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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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.