[PATCH 00/10] Orion Watchdog fixes
Ezequiel Garcia
ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 16 08:17:44 EDT 2013
Hi Sebastian,
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>
> In the discussion about orion clocksource Russell was proposing a generic
> thread-safe write. That puts a single lock around all those writes. Of
> course, it will also blocked by totally unrelated thread-safe register
> accesses but should prevent us from having dozens of locks and solves the
> symbol issue.
>
Thanks for the insight! I'll try to dig this suggestion in the clocksource
discussion. Do you have any plans for posting the clocksource soon?
This way I can base this series on something that's in Jason's trees...
Thanks!
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