Hi Paul,
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:04:17PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This fixes a race condition where one thread that is entering or
> leaving a power-saving state can inadvertently ignore the lock bit
> that was set by another thread, and potentially also clear it.
> The core_idle_lock_hel
This fixes a race condition where one thread that is entering or
leaving a power-saving state can inadvertently ignore the lock bit
that was set by another thread, and potentially also clear it.
The core_idle_lock_held function is called when the lock bit is
seen to be set. It polls the lock bit u