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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] locking: Document the semantics of spin_is_locked()
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Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> >  * Note that the function only tells you that the CPU is seen to be locked,
> 
> the CPU is locked??
> 
> >  * not that it is locked on your CPU.

Sorry, yes: "... that the lock is seen to be locked, not that it is locked on
your CPU".