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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] acpi: semaphore removal
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218157206.19162.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080808003408.GA8618@parisc-linux.org>

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 18:34 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:59:43AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > The semaphore usage in ACPI is more like completions. The ASL
> > functions getting implemented here are signals which follow a
> > "wait for", signaled, or reset format.
> > 
> > This implements the ACPI signaling methods with the Linux
> > completion API, instead of using semaphores.
> > 
> > completion_done() taken from Dave Chinner.
> 
> completion_done is an abomination.  Stop this.
> 

In my ACPI changes it's just used for a BUG_ON to trigger if there is
something waiting on the completion before the memory gets free'd ..

You don't like how it's used, or you don't like the code itself?

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 14:59 [PATCH 0/3] acpi: semaphore removal -v2 Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 1/5] add mutex_lock_timeout() Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 14:59   ` [PATCH 2/5] acpi: add real mutex function calls Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 14:59     ` [PATCH 3/5] acpi: add lockdep magic Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 14:59       ` [PATCH 4/5] acpi: remove interpreter lock Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 14:59         ` [PATCH 5/5] acpi: semaphore removal Daniel Walker
2008-08-08  0:34           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-08  1:00             ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2008-08-08  1:28             ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-08  2:53               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-08  3:47                 ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-08  2:44           ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-08  3:35             ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 20:32         ` [PATCH 4/5] acpi: remove interpreter lock Moore, Robert
2008-08-07 21:09           ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-07 21:30             ` Moore, Robert
2008-08-08  0:01               ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-08  2:40         ` Andi Kleen

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