Re: longstanding global_irq_lock race fixes

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:19:26 -0800


Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:06:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

I did this patch some time ago. It would be better to kill the
global cli/sti so fixing the races properly, but I don't have such
hardware to test the code I am not going to do that. The fixes
below only fixes the current races. It applyed cleanly to 2.3.36.

I've applied your patches, thanks.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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