Alan Cox wrote:
> > - Then, are we certain that there's no case where the tty layer will
> > call us with some lock held or in an atomic context ? To be honest,
> > I've totally lost track of the locking rules in tty land lately so it
> > might well be ok, but something to verify.
>
> Some of the
On (Thu) Aug 27 2009 [14:07:03], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 21:15 +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>
> >
> > > - Convert hvc's usage of spinlocks to mutexes. I've no idea how this
> > > will play out; I'm no expert here. But I did try doing this and so far
> > > it all looks