On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:07 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:00 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Since it's all got "__" in the front, not good to use this method all
> > > over .. If you just need a real spinlock best to use
> > > DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK() unless your a special situation ..

die_lock has been RAW for a while, see older patches...

but DEFINE_RAW or DECLARE_RAW should be used when possible.

Sven

> > 
> > Oopsing is a special situation. Nobody knows if all the fancy infrastructure
> > lurking inside the other macros still works.
> 
> In the case of spinlocks, real time just differs from the mainline
> kernel by make a spinlock_t into a mutex .. We know that's not going to
> work in this situation. The rest of the debugging added to spinlocks is
> mostly un-changed from mainline (like lockdep is still there)..
> 
> So you should be able to use a regular mainline style spinlock_t for the
> die_lock, even with all the debugging ..\

I'll check in a minute, but pretty s

> 
> The real time spinlock macros are pretty complex , but it's mostly
> compile related complexity that disappears when you run the kernel.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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