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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Orion Watchdog fixes
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Hi Sebastian,

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>=20
> In the discussion about orion clocksource Russell was proposing a gener=
ic=20
> thread-safe write. That puts a single lock around all those writes. Of=20
> course, it will also blocked by totally unrelated thread-safe register=20
> accesses but should prevent us from having dozens of locks and solves t=
he=20
> symbol issue.
>=20

Thanks for the insight! I'll try to dig this suggestion in the clocksourc=
e
discussion. Do you have any plans for posting the clocksource soon?
This way I can base this series on something that's in Jason's trees...

Thanks!
--=20
Ezequiel Garc=C3=ADa, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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