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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: linux@bohmer.net
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PI mutex support on ARM
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:58:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070708095841.GA4601@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3efb10970707080124i7a9323c5o9257b4adcb2ac493@mail.gmail.com>


* Remy Bohmer <l.pinguin@gmail.com> wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/asm/futex.h	2007-04-26 05:08:32.000000000 +0200

patch format problem: never diff the asm/ files, diff the asm-arm/ 
files.

> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> +	err = get_user(uval, uaddr);

is it safe to do a get_user() with irqs off?

> +	if (err)
> +	{
> +		local_irq_restore(flags);
> +		 return -EFAULT;
> +	}

(style problems. Use scripts/checkpatch.pl to verify your patches.)

> +	local_irq_restore(flags);

is this method of atomic ops SMP-safe?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-08  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-08  8:24 PI mutex support on ARM Remy Bohmer
2007-07-08  9:58 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-08 20:17   ` Remy Bohmer
2007-07-09 14:46     ` Arjan van de Ven

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