Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 11 June 2007 20:27, Chris Wright wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to > > the PIT: It uses a local lock. > > > > On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the > >

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to > the PIT: It uses a local lock. > > On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the > architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to the PIT: It uses a local lock. On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code ignores

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 11 June 2007 20:27, Chris Wright wrote: * Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to the PIT: It uses a local lock. On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the architecture