From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:26:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:26:28 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:12299 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:26:07 -0500 From: Chris Rankin Message-Id: <200101261025.f0QAPxo00754@wellhouse.underworld> Subject: Re: [PATCH](s): Use spinlocks instead of STI/CLI in SoundBlaster To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:25:58 +1100 (EST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A712AA4.13B912AD@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Jan 26, 2001 06:43:32 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > spin_lock_irqsave() and save_flags()+cli() are identical on > uniprocessor builds. OK, so a UP-build proves nothing ... > cli() is quite putrid on SMP and should be shot. This much I understand ... > You can test your patch on uniprocessor hardware - just build > an SMP kernel and run it. If it doesn't deadlock, things > are looking positive. OK, I'll do that. > I dunno if you'll have much luck getting this into 2.4.1 though. > I suggest you send it to Alan. I have no illusions whatsoever about Linus picking this up. However, Alan has been picking patches up I've posted before. I can't send this to Alan directly though, because his mailserver keeps on asking for the average airspeed of an unladen swallow ... (I don't know that!) Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/