From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:36:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110804113655.GA30077@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANcMJZDqYJHTTPifrxr7cDVA_S+PRwy6AzjO-54ucvpnyoRADA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:22:24AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> Sorry if this should be obvious, but is there a reason your not using
> your own internal lock for serializing the efi bits rather then using
> the rtc_lock?
On x86 systems the EFI clock is almost certainly the AT RTC, so it's
necessary to serialise accesses between EFI and the traditional clock
interface.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-04 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-03 21:04 [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock Matt Fleming
2011-08-03 23:10 ` Tony Luck
2011-08-03 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-04 10:22 ` john stultz
2011-08-04 10:36 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-04 11:36 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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2011-08-04 2:53 Jan Beulich
2011-08-04 3:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-08-04 9:33 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-05 17:02 Jan Beulich
2011-08-05 17:04 Jan Beulich
2011-08-08 13:40 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-08 14:07 ` Jan Beulich
2011-08-10 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-10 9:36 ` Jan Beulich
2011-08-10 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-10 13:12 ` Jan Beulich
2011-08-15 18:18 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-16 6:22 ` Jan Beulich
2011-08-16 9:14 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-30 15:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-08-30 16:07 ` Matt Fleming
2011-08-30 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 14:55 ` Jan Beulich
2011-08-08 14:18 ` Avi Kivity
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