Re: [PATCH] staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with thehypervisor

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Apr 07 2011 - 18:48:46 EST


On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:49:58PM -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Locking is required when tweaking bits located in a shared page, use the
> sync_ version of bitops. Without this change vmbus_on_event() will miss
> events and as a result, vmbus_isr() will not schedule the receive tasklet.
>
> Backported to 2.6.32 stable kernel by Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the backport, now queued up.

greg k-h
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