From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
len.brown@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] acpi: semaphore removal
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:15:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720081512.GC5947@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216491411-24080-3-git-send-email-dwalker@mvista.com>
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:16:53AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> The semaphore is used pretty extensively in acpi, but the actual
> usage model is really more like completions. The ASL functions
> getting implemented here are signals which follow a "wait for",
> signaled, or rest format.
>
> This implements the ACPI signaling methods with the Linux
> completion API, instead of using semaphores.
>
> completion_done() taken from Dave Chinner.
The patch series that contained completion_done() is (AFAIK)
in the -mm tree at the moment. You'd probably do best to keep
it as a separate patch in your series so we don't end up with
random conflicts all over the place....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-19 18:16 [PATCH 0/3] acpi: acpi: sem out, mutex/completion in Daniel Walker
2008-07-19 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] acpi: add real mutex function calls Daniel Walker
2008-07-19 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] acpi: semaphore removal Daniel Walker
2008-07-19 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add lockdep integration for the ACPI mutex usage Daniel Walker
2008-07-20 8:15 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-07-20 14:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] acpi: semaphore removal Daniel Walker
2008-07-21 1:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] acpi: add real mutex function calls Zhao Yakui
2008-07-21 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-21 9:17 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-21 19:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 19:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-21 19:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-21 20:22 ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-21 20:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 20:38 ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-21 13:59 ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-21 13:56 ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-21 19:20 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 19:39 ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-23 22:14 ` Moore, Robert
2008-07-24 12:44 ` Daniel Walker
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