[PATCH 0/11] Patches for Toshiba Cell reference set

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Feb 5 10:55:21 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:34 +0900, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
> Paul-san,
> 
> This is a revised version of the patch set for Toshiba Cell reference
> set (aka Celleb). It is against powerpc.git. Please apply.
> 
> 
> Changes from our previous patch set:
> 
> [PATCH 5/11] Celleb: htab routines
> * use spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock()

In which circumstances was that a problem ? iSeries uses spin_lock() ...
the caller should have disable IRQs before calling any of the low level
htab routines. If not, then there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

> [PATCH 8/11] Celleb: consolidate spu management ops
> * (already posted)
>   fix compile error in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_priv1_mmio.h

Ben.





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