On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, John Kacur wrote: > > > > Thanks Steven. That looks way better than the previous revert. > > I can't tell as I haven't seen the previous revert. And looks good is > not really a good review criteria. Absolutely true, and I wasn't claiming to have reviewed it, just wanted to let everyone know that testing on it was to begin. > > The patch is converting _all_ the spin_locks in acpi to raw spinlocks, > which will give you a nice bunch of "BUG: sleeping function called > from invalid context" splats depending on the ACPI functionality of > your machine. > > The lock which is related to this splat is: acpi_gbl_hardware_lock and > that's the only lock which can be safely converted to a raw spinlock. > > Untested patch below. > > Thanks, > > tglx Thank you Thomas, adding this version instead to our test queue. John -----------------SNIP -- 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/
