On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:06:00AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > that are: > > while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) { > mdelay(1); > msecs--; > } > > where mdelay() becomes __const_udelay() which happens to be in another > translation unit (arch/i386/lib/delay.c) and hence saves this callsite > from being a bug :-)
The udelay itself certainly should have some form of cpu_relax in it. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html