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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

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-05  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050104214048.21749.85722.89116@localhost.localdomain>
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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