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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:12:02 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch 04/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, add-atomic-call-func-x86_64.patch
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

>>Considering that on UP, the arm should not need to disable interrupts
>>for this function (or has someone refuted Linus?), how about:
> 
> 
> Kernel preemption.
> 

preempt_disable() ?

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