Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] RTC: assure proper memory ordering withrespect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag (was Re: RTC: convert mutex to bitfield)

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:00:04 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> [ nobody seems to have picked this up, resending. This is a fix for 
>   commit 8853c202b4 in Linus' tree ]
> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> 
> RTC: assure proper memory ordering with respect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag
> 
> We must make sure that the RTC_DEV_BUSY flag has proper lock semantics, 
> i.e. that the RTC_DEV_BUSY stores clearing the flag don't get reordered 
> before the preceeding stores and loads and vice versa.
> 
> Spotted by Nick Piggin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

 missed it, sorry.

 
 Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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