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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-16 16:42:49 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-26 14:37:27 +1000
commitf97bb36f705da0a86b3ea77bfeee3415fee0b025 (patch)
tree753cfb89d52d5732142bb424b5c72ffc869db0a8 /COPYING
parent5d38902c483881645ba16058cffaa478b81e5cfa (diff)
powerpc/rtas: Turn rtas lock into a raw spinlock
RTAS currently uses a normal spinlock. However it can be called from contexts where this is not necessarily a good idea. For example, it can be called while syncing timebases, with the core timebase being frozen. Unfortunately, that will deadlock in case of lock contention when spinlock debugging is enabled as the spin lock debugging code will try to use __delay() which ... relies on the timebase being enabled. Also RTAS can be used in some low level IRQ handling code path so it may as well be a raw spinlock for -rt sake. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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