Em Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:56:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> * tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> > +void dsos__add(struct dsos *dsos, struct dso *dso)
> > +{
> > +   pthread_rwlock_wrlock(&dsos->lock);
> > +   __dsos__add(dsos, dso);
> > +   pthread_rwlock_unlock(&dsos->lock);
> >  }
> 
> Please introduce wrappers and use the kernel API names: 
> read_lock()/read_unlock()/etc. (and name the mutex primitives 
> mutex_lock()/unlock())
> 
> That way kernel developers will find their way around the perf locking 
> details 
> easily, and we can also use liblockdep to check locking correctness.

Yeah, we discussed about that, will do it eventually, you said this was
already present in some tools/ code, but I couldn't find it:

[acme@zoo linux]$ find tools/ -type f | xargs grep '\<mutex_unlock'
[acme@zoo linux]$ 

Anyway, worthy goal, will do.

- Arnaldo
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