Re: [PATCH] IRQ patch for Toshiba Char Driver in 2.5.34

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:29:38 +0100


You've just made the driver horribly racy on SMP or preempt systems..

Instead of a blind search and replace you have to find out the protected
data and add a spinlock around it, also in the top-half of the kernel.
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