[PATCH] powerpc: remove useless spinlock from mpc83xx watchdog
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Jan 20 09:12:19 EST 2006
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 14:48 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:49:16AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > f = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR);
> > fork();
> > while(1) {
> > write(f, "Boing", 5);
> > }
>
> Oops.
>
> At least 50% of the watchdog drivers rely solely on the "wdt_is_open"
> atomic variable and are broken with respect to synchronization.
What an excellent janitors project
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