[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Add spinlock to request_phb_iospace()

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Tue May 15 14:26:15 EST 2007


On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:16:26 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> request_phb_iospace() can be called from different CPUs at init
> time (at least with my next patch) and thus needs a spinlock. As
> for the next patch, this is a temporary workaround for 2.6.22
> issues until my rewrite of IO mappings is ready (for 2.6.23)

What problem is this solving?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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