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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ying.huang@intel.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, rth@twiddle.net,
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	ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, tony.luck@intel.com,
	takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, monstr@monstr.eu,
	ralf@linux-mips.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	liqin.chen@sunplusct.com, mingo@redhat.com, chris@zankel.net
Subject: Re: [RFC -v9 1/4] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:35:44 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101223.093544.71126698.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293083003-19577-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com>

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:43:20 +0800

> --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ config SPARC
>  	select RTC_CLASS
>  	select RTC_DRV_M48T59
>  	select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
> +	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
>  	select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
>  	select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL

This should only be set for "SPARC64".  SPARC32's cmpxchg uses spinlocks and
IRQ disabling, which is not NMI safe.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23  5:43 [RFC -v9 0/4] Lock-less list Huang Ying
2010-12-23  5:43 ` [RFC -v9 1/4] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG Huang Ying
2010-12-23 17:35   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-12-24  0:56     ` Huang Ying
2010-12-23  5:43 ` [RFC -v9 2/4] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list Huang Ying
2010-12-23  5:43 ` [RFC -v9 3/4] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work Huang Ying
2010-12-23  5:43 ` [RFC -v9 4/4] net, rds, Replace xlist in net/rds/xlist.h with llist Huang Ying
2010-12-23  7:05   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-12-23  8:31     ` Huang Ying
2010-12-23 21:51   ` Chris Mason
2010-12-24  0:29     ` Huang Ying
2010-12-23  6:05 ` [RFC -v9 0/4] Lock-less list Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-12-23  8:31   ` Huang Ying

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