On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Your problem will be, of course, that any architecture that does this in > hardware will just DoTheRightThing, and as such, broken architectures with > bad locking primitives will have to test and do source-level analysis > more. (The underlying thread here being that the workqueue stuff _should_ be safe in this regard. But the "testing will not catch bugs like these is certainly true in general) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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