Re: [PATCH] x86: serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock

[Rakib Mullick]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:32:05PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:

> That's just assigning some function pointers, not actually making the
> calls. There's potentially several routes to each of the calls, so it
> makes sense to do the locking there.
>
I got confused by the patch subject. I thought, this serialization is
required at the time of startup.


Thanks,
Rakib

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