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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2015-10-23 06:57:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2015-10-23 06:57:50 +0200 |
| commit | 274035751e25ee15a064e43cde7b4e7a9b75d921 (patch) | |
| tree | bf5f3f18f14855043324ef02a116532d866e3dac /arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h | |
| parent | ALSA: Remove transfer_ack_{begin,end} callbacks from struct snd_pcm_runtime (diff) | |
| parent | ASoC: cht_bsw_rt5672: Use snd_pcm_hw_constraint_single() (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'topic/hw-constraint-single' into for-next
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h index cab6753f1be5..3f191f573d4f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h @@ -61,8 +61,13 @@ struct machdep_calls { unsigned long addr, unsigned char *hpte_slot_array, int psize, int ssize, int local); - /* special for kexec, to be called in real mode, linear mapping is - * destroyed as well */ + /* + * Special for kexec. + * To be called in real mode with interrupts disabled. No locks are + * taken as such, concurrent access on pre POWER5 hardware could result + * in a deadlock. + * The linear mapping is destroyed as well. + */ void (*hpte_clear_all)(void); void __iomem * (*ioremap)(phys_addr_t addr, unsigned long size, |