From f97bb36f705da0a86b3ea77bfeee3415fee0b025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:42:49 +0000 Subject: powerpc/rtas: Turn rtas lock into a raw spinlock RTAS currently uses a normal spinlock. However it can be called from contexts where this is not necessarily a good idea. For example, it can be called while syncing timebases, with the core timebase being frozen. Unfortunately, that will deadlock in case of lock contention when spinlock debugging is enabled as the spin lock debugging code will try to use __delay() which ... relies on the timebase being enabled. Also RTAS can be used in some low level IRQ handling code path so it may as well be a raw spinlock for -rt sake. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h index 01c12339b304..0af42d20b692 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct rtas_t { unsigned long entry; /* physical address pointer */ unsigned long base; /* physical address pointer */ unsigned long size; - spinlock_t lock; + raw_spinlock_t lock; struct rtas_args args; struct device_node *dev; /* virtual address pointer */ }; -- cgit v1.2.3