Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml:fix ubd deadlock on SMP

[BlaisorBlade <bla...@ya...>]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 20:12, Chris Wright wrote:
> * bla...@ya... (bla...@ya...) wrote:
> > Trivial: don't lock the queue spinlock when called from the request
> > function. Since the faulty function must use spinlock in another case,
> > double-case it. And since we will never use both functions together, let
> > no object code be shared between them.
>
> Why not add a helper which locks around the core function.  Then either
> call helper or core function directly depending on locking needs?
I'm happy with whatever is nicer.
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