On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Grant Likely<[email protected]> wrote: > From: Grant Likely <[email protected]> > > Current implementation of spin_event_timeout can be interrupted by an > IRQ or context switch after testing the condition, but before checking > the timeout. This can cause the loop to report a timeout when the > condition actually became true in the middle. > > This patch adds one final check of the condition upon exit of the loop > if the last test of the condition was still false. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Timur Tabi <[email protected]> Ben, please pick this up for the next rc of 2.6.31. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
