On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:20:09 -0700 Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt Mackall suggested converting epoll's ep_lock to a bitlock as a way of > saving space in struct file. This patch makes that change. hrm. bit_spin_lock() makes people upset (large penguiny people). iirc it doesn't have all the correct/well-understood memory/compiler ordering semantics which spinlocks have. And lockdep doesn't know about it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
