From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Blackwell <jblack@linuxguru.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@buzzard.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IRQ patch for Toshiba Char Driver in 2.5.34
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:29:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020911112938.A25726@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020909115956.GA23290@comet>; from jblack@linuxguru.net on Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:59:57AM -0400
You've just made the driver horribly racy on SMP or preempt systems..
Instead of a blind search and replace you have to find out the protected
data and add a spinlock around it, also in the top-half of the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 11:59 James Blackwell
2002-09-09 19:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-11 10:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-09-15 15:42 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-15 19:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-09-15 19:53 ` James Blackwell
2002-09-15 20:02 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-15 22:27 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-15 23:39 ` Jonathan Buzzard
2002-09-16 11:59 ` Pavel Machek
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