[PATCH] arm: omap: make wakeupgen_lock raw

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Jan 25 02:51:49 EST 2013


On Thursday 24 January 2013 11:52 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:49:47PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>>
>> When applying RT patch on top of Linux, spinlocks are
>> implemented as RT-mutexes, which means they are preemptable.
>>
>> Current GIC implementation on OMAP is using a spinlock
>> to protect against preemption. As it turns out, we need
>> to convert that lock into a raw_spinlock so that OMAP's
>> interrupt controller works as expected after RT-patch
>> is applied.
>>
>> This patch is simply to decrease the amount of changes
>> RT-team needs to carry out of tree. It doesn't cause any
>> changes in behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
>
Sorry i missed this patch. Tony can you please
pick it up?

For the patch,
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>






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