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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:49:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] smp_call_function_mask
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> You can blame me for the mess with smp_call_function:
> 2.2 supported nonatomic calls. I have no idea if that was deadlock free.
> 
> But noone used the 'retry/nonatomic' parameter, noone handled an error 
> return of  smp_call_function (some callers panic).
> Thus I've removed these features from i386, without changing the 
> prototype. I think all archs have picked that up now.
> But retry/nonatomic should not spread into new functions.

Ok i'll send something with forced retry and removing the nonatomic/retry 
parameter completely.

	Zwane
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