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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
	hch@infradead.org, tglx@tglx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: change do_timer() to take xtime lock, and provide do_timer_locked()
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:59:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101211458400.2971@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295617090-24896-1-git-send-email-torbenh@gmx.de>

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Torben Hohn wrote:

> in an effort to reduce occurrences of xtime_lock in the codebase,
> this commit makes do_timer take the xtime lock.
> 
> there are quite some occurences where arch code seems to protect
> other datastructures with this lock too.
> we provide do_timer_locked() for these occurences.
> 
> however, for this change to make sense, we should try to get rid
> of most calls to do_timer_locked()
> gonna try to address that in other arch specific commits.

Please see my other mail. We really don't want all that churn in one
large commit.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 17:14 [PATCH] RFC: abstract access to xtime_lock into a set of inline functions Torben Hohn
2011-01-20 17:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-20 19:37   ` john stultz
2011-01-21 13:38     ` [PATCH] RFC: change do_timer() to take xtime lock, and provide do_timer_locked() Torben Hohn
2011-01-21 13:59       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-01-21 13:57     ` [PATCH] RFC: abstract access to xtime_lock into a set of inline functions Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-21 13:23   ` Yong Zhang

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