Re: [patch 3/3] clockevents: Fix resume logic - updated version

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 09:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The locking in clocksource_resume_watchdog looks pretty pointless anyway.
> Can't we just delete it?
> 
> The only thing it can race against is, conceivably,
> 
>         resumed = watchdog_resumed;
>         if (unlikely(resumed))
>                 watchdog_resumed = 0;
> 
> which could be solved by using test_and_clear_bit().

True. I'll redo it.

> Does anyone have any theories about my lockdep warning?

Can you upload a snapshot of your current queue ?

	tglx



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