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On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> Interrupt controllers' hooks are executed in the atomic context, so
> they are not permitted to sleep (with RT kernels non-raw spinlocks are
> sleepable). So, qe_ic_lock has to be a real (non-sleepable) spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
> ---

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- k