From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] sal calls w/o taking sal_lock
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 05:18:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705381@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705378@msgid-missing>
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:28:26 -0800,
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:06:44 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> said:
>
> Jesse> This patch adds SAL_CALL_NOLOCK so that platforms may call the SAL
> Jesse> without taking a lock, if appropriate. The ia64_sal_mc_rendez() has
> Jesse> been changed to use it, since it won't return until all CPUs have been
> Jesse> rendevoused by the SAL, if I understand correctly. It's also used by
> Jesse> various SN specific SAL routines that access the system controllers
> Jesse> and might be useful to other plaforms.
>
>http://lia64.bkbits.net:8080/to-linus-2.5/cset@1.1113?nav=index.html
I do not understand why you renamed the variables. The SAL code is
enclosed in do { } while(); All variables within {} are local, they do
not need unique names.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-02 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-01 20:28 [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] sal calls w/o taking sal_lock David Mosberger
2003-04-01 20:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-04-02 5:18 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2003-04-02 6:09 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2003-04-02 6:20 ` Keith Owens
2003-04-02 8:55 ` Andreas Schwab
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=marc-linux-ia64-105590723705381@msgid-missing \
--to=kaos@ocs.com.au \
--cc=linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.