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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 11:52 am

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

Is there any reason to do any locking what-so-ever?

If this code could possibly race with something else, that sounds like a 
bug in itself, no?

		Linus
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[BUG] smp alternatives: sleeping function called from inva ..., Luca Tettamanti, (Wed Apr 30, 12:51 pm)
Re: [BUG] smp alternatives: sleeping function called from ..., Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu May 1, 6:04 am)
Re: [BUG] smp alternatives: sleeping function called from ..., Luca Tettamanti, (Thu May 1, 8:02 am)
Re: [BUG] smp alternatives: sleeping function called from ..., Luca Tettamanti, (Thu May 1, 9:44 am)
[PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlo ..., Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu May 1, 11:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of sp ..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 1, 11:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of sp ..., Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu May 1, 1:08 pm)