From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262217AbVAECn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:43:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262220AbVAECn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:43:58 -0500 Received: from out004pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.142]:33214 "EHLO out004.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262217AbVAECnr (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:43:47 -0500 Message-ID: <41DB5476.9040103@cwazy.co.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:44:06 -0500 From: Jim Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Gerst CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ppc: remove cli()/sti() from arch/ppc/* References: <20050104214048.21749.85722.89116@localhost.localdomain> <41DB4E99.3060200@didntduck.org> In-Reply-To: <41DB4E99.3060200@didntduck.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [209.158.220.243] at Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:43:46 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Brian Gerst wrote: > James Nelson wrote: > >> This series of patches is to remove the last cli()/sti() function >> calls in arch/ppc. >> >> These are the only instances in active code that grep could find. > > > Are you sure none of these need real spinlocks instead of just > disabling interrupts? > > -- > Brian Gerst > These are for single-processor systems, mostly evaluation boards and embedded processors. I coudn't find any reference to multiprocessor setups for the processors in question after a peruse of the code or a quick google on the boards in question. Jim