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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:46:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806074608.GA12415@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803105540.4f85ae09@localhost>


>  typedef struct { 
>  	int size;
> -	struct semaphore sem;
> +	struct mutex lock;

hm, looks good to me but i'm wondering why this was a holdout for such a 
long time :-) Did you manage to test actual LDT functionality with this 
patch applied?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 13:55 [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06  7:46 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-06 13:34   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:36   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 15:25     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 17:15       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 17:43         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 19:32     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 20:36       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:36   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 21:10     ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:39   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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