Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock,text_poke is sleepable

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> Yep. I think using a mutex should fix it. There is no reason to use a
> spinlock rather than a mutex here.

Is there any reason to do any locking what-so-ever?

If this code could possibly race with something else, that sounds like a 
bug in itself, no?

		Linus
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