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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: stefani@seibold.net
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:25:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008031025.52409.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280778048-6208-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>

On Monday 02 August 2010, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> 
> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the
> flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic
> path will use this lock.

I don't know this code well, but the patch looks correct and seems
to be needed.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 19:40 [PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex stefani
2010-08-03  8:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-08-05  4:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-05  5:30   ` Artem Bityutskiy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-05  7:19 stefani
2010-08-05  9:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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