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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Converting ia64 kernel unwinder to lock free code
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:30:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16760.46879.296371.725336@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5907.1098419155@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

>>>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:25:55 +1000, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:

  Keith> Before I start on this task, are there any other plans for
  Keith> the kernel unwinder code?  In the past davidm has hinted at
  Keith> replacing it with libunwind.

I definitely want to do that.  I'm not sure you can make it entirely
lock-free with caching enabled, but libunwind already works such that
if the lock is already taken, it bypasses the cache and hence doesn't
need to acquire the lock.

	--david

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22  4:25 Converting ia64 kernel unwinder to lock free code Keith Owens
2004-10-22  7:30 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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