Re: [PATCH -v4 1/2] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 03:58:06 EST


On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:43 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
>
> The only cause for concern really is SH-2A which supports hardware
> breakpoints (and perf events by proxy) but doesn't contain a PMU, and
> only uses an IRQs disabled cmpxchg for the moment. It also supports
> ftrace. I suppose I'll need to come up with a hack for this case..

Well, as long as it doesn't actually have NMIs it doesn't matter.. If it
does and they're actually used by linux, then yes that needs fixing.
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