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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:27 +0200
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH] nucleus: Convert intrlock to a sleeping Linux
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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On 2012-10-18 06:37, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 01:19 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> All users of this lock are supposed to run over Linux context already.
>> Moreover, latest I-pipe patches complain that ipipe_virtualize_irq is
>> called with the Xenomai domain stalled. So convert this lock to a
>> sleeping Linux variant to avoid that alarm.
> 
> 
> Do we really really want such a change in the stable branch?

Yes because it fixes a bug (that prevents detecting other bugs).

Jan

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