locking updates
Manfred Spraul
manfreds at colorfullife.com
Fri Jan 21 01:09:05 EST 2000
I noticed a few locking problems/improvements in the ppc code:
* arch/ppc/kernel/syscalls.c:
- printk() is SMP safe, the lock_kernel() calls around printk() are
superflous.
- the complete sysv ipc code is smp safe.
- sys_uname(): you should acquire the uts_sem semaphore before accessing
the members of system_utsname [applies to both 2.2 and 2.3].
* arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c:
- do_exit(SIGSEGV) doesn't need lock_kernel().
It's always interesting to compare 2 architectures: I also spotted a bug
in the i386 code ;)
--
Manfred
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