Re: [PATCH for review] [12/48] x86_64: use the global PIT lock

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:22:38 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Andi,
> >
> > On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to serialize the
> > > PIT access all over the place.
> > >
> >
> > Like I said before I'd be more happy if spinlock was attached to a
> > platform device that pcspkr binds to so the arch code would control
> > wehther we use a private spinlock or a global one (I sent a patch to
> > that effect earlier).
>
> Not sure that flexibility is needed. Why would an architecture ever want
> to have more than one lock for this? And we normally don't need sysdevs
> for locks, they seem to be quite unrelated.

I was not talking about sysdevs. I was talking about platform devices
that are already being created for pcspkr by arch code. Now I want
arch code to provide a spinlock for pcspkr driver to use when
accessing PIT. What it does it allows to remove arch specific
knowledge (i.e. #ifdef CONFIG_X86...) from the pcspkr driver.

--
Dmitry
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