On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:18 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > I've seen drivers in the past do trylocks at interrupt time ... tho > I > > agree it sucks. > > Recently there was a thread where this was declared absolutely > illegal. > > Maybe it was allowed, or sort-of worked before, and that's why it's > accounted for with IRQ disables in some implementations. I don't > know. Ok, I'm happy to say it's a big no-no then. Arnd, do you want to take over the moving to asm-generic and take care of the spinlock case as well ? I can send Linus the first patch that changes powerpc to use atomic_long now along with a few other things I have pending, then you can pickup from there. Or do you want me to continue pushing my patch as-is and we can look at cleaning up the spinlock case separately ? Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
