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From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: spin locks and migrate_disable()
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:57:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F762C59.4050008@am.sony.com> (raw)

Hi Thomas,

Two questions about spin_lock() in include/linux/spinlock_rt.h.

(1) spin_lock() and related functions invoke migrate_disable() and
migrate_enable().  These functions are created by your patch,
sched-migrate-disable.patch, and are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().  Would
you be willing to change these to EXPORT_SYMBOL()?

(2) What is the purpose of the migrate_disable() in the spin lock?
Is it a correctness issue, or a performance issue, or something else?

Thanks!

-Frank


             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-30 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 21:57 Frank Rowand [this message]
2012-04-13  7:52 ` spin locks and migrate_disable() Thomas Gleixner

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