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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: tsenglin@us.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add Initiate Coprocessor Store Word (icswx) support
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:55:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503165520.67eab924@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304405237.2513.304.camel@pasglop>


Hi Ben,

> My only comment (sorry Anton :-) would have been that we could lazily
> allocate the spinlock on the first use_cop() ... or do we have that
> potentially called in the wrong context ?

I worry what might happen in a threaded app. It would be a strange
thing to do, but the program may call use_cop from two threads at the
same time. In that case you could corrupt the PID/ACOP values
and leak a spinlock of memory I think.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03  6:43 [PATCH] powerpc: Add Initiate Coprocessor Store Word (icswx) support Anton Blanchard
2011-05-03  6:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-03  6:55   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2011-05-03  8:57     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-18  1:36 Anton Blanchard
2011-04-24  6:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-25 21:32 Anton Blanchard
2011-03-28 15:26 ` Kumar Gala
2011-03-28 19:08   ` Anton Blanchard

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