On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Shan Hai wrote: > The spin_lock_irq[save|restore] could break the atomicity of the > atomic64_* operations in the PREEMPT-RT configuration, because > the spin_lock_irq[save|restore] themselves are preemptable in the > PREEMPT-RT, using raw variant of the spin lock could provide the > atomicity that atomic64_* need. Good catch. Queued for the next release. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
