From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965300AbXGSPXA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:23:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965199AbXGSPWl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:22:41 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:19451 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965188AbXGSPWj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:22:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SExWS3E7vKCLxmi/Num02F18NQZdxgryFfxRoXsZCcOhu2okBGL3FginIR5zAcJiuD/ypDCbi+Kok54nqbq1TBQ6SOvjjqhIlGp75bQ5Yp1+dbAeDzSJH2omX3v83NGLaRIeKQW8tDdVnRJJC6EA9oWSH3VRh+00v46HRu9CitE= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:22:38 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [12/48] x86_64: use the global PIT lock Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070719134841.5677614E6E@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070719348.540885000@suse.de> <20070719134841.5677614E6E@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andi, On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen wrote: > > From: Thomas Gleixner > > Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to serialize the > PIT access all over the place. > Like I said before I'd be more happy if spinlock was attached to a platform device that pcspkr binds to so the arch code would control wehther we use a private spinlock or a global one (I sent a patch to that effect earlier). However I am OK with Thomas's patch as well. -- Dmitry