On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:27:49 -0600 Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch prevents deadlocks in IPMI panic handler caused by msg_lock > in smi_info structure and waiting_msgs_lock in ipmi_smi structure. Again, what are the newly-added barrier()s for? Was cpu_relax() intended? If a barrier indeed was intended then, as always, each one should have a comment explaining why it is there. Because it is frequently hard to determine what the programmer was trying to do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
