From: Jim Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ppc: remove cli()/sti() from arch/ppc/*
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:44:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DB5476.9040103@cwazy.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DB4E99.3060200@didntduck.org>
Brian Gerst wrote:
> James Nelson wrote:
>
>> This series of patches is to remove the last cli()/sti() function
>> calls in arch/ppc.
>>
>> These are the only instances in active code that grep could find.
>
>
> Are you sure none of these need real spinlocks instead of just
> disabling interrupts?
>
> --
> Brian Gerst
>
These are for single-processor systems, mostly evaluation boards and
embedded processors. I coudn't find any reference to multiprocessor
setups for the processors in question after a peruse of the code or a
quick google on the boards in question.
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-05 3:02 UTC|newest]
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2005-01-05 2:19 ` [PATCH 0/7] ppc: remove cli()/sti() from arch/ppc/* Brian Gerst
2005-01-05 2:44 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2005-01-05 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 11:19 ` Jim Nelson
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