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authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>2009-01-08 02:14:18 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-01-13 14:48:01 +1100
commit9fef3d2d15ae8ca24e4a145f2e189eea145d18c2 (patch)
treedeb3764686dcbeb5ab013ecf6183d55c514f216f /drivers/char/vc_screen.c
parenta1c5a8932bbb75b550deb156d890027827fc9d6e (diff)
hvc_console: Change an mb() to smp_mb() and add some comments
I remember some history on this barrier. There was a race between open via /dev/console and the tty being fully setup. Its also why there is a temporary variable and the global is assigned at the end of the function. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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