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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:51:38 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "King, Steven R" <steven.r.king@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel
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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:38:44AM -0800, King, Steven R wrote:
> We just use the kernel's spin_lock_irqsave(), so I don't know what
> you're talking about.

If you peruse the section, "The Fucked Up Sparc" in
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking you will see the problem.

thanks,

greg k-h