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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:57:41 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 team <x86@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] i8253: Convert i8253_lock to raw_spinlock
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:47:10PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> i8253_lock needs to be a real spinlock in preempt-rt, i.e. it can
> not be converted to a sleeping lock.
> 
> Convert it to raw_spinlock and fix up all users.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

  Ralf