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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH v2 1/3] nucleus: Use Linux spin lock for
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> No need for hard nklock protection of kheapq and the map counter, a
> normal spin lock suffices as all users must run over the root thread
> anyway.

At the very least, this should use rthal_spin_lock, in order to seem to
respect the layering.

Anyway, do we really want to change this now?

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					    Gilles.