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From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Define __raw_read_lock etc for uniprocessor builds
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:29:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060124182942.GA16241@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124181712.GA13277@infradead.org>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:17:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:09:54PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > 
> > Make NOPed versions of __raw_read_lock and family available
> > under uniprocessor kernels.
> > 
> > Discovered when compiling a uniprocessor kernel with the
> > fusyn patch applied.
> > 
> > The standard kernel does not use __raw_read_lock etc
> > outside of spinlock.c, which may account for this bug
> > being undiscovered until now.
> 
> No one should call these directly.   Please fix your odd patch instead.

Actually the patch calls the _raw version which is #defined to the __raw
version.  So it is doing the correct thing.

Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24 18:09 Define __raw_read_lock etc for uniprocessor builds Joe Korty
2006-01-24 18:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-24 18:29   ` Joe Korty [this message]
2006-01-24 18:32     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-24 18:38       ` Joe Korty
2006-01-24 18:42         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-24 18:59           ` Joe Korty
2006-01-24 21:05           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-24 21:12 ` Ingo Molnar

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