Re: [PATCH] plist: add mutex to the blessed lock type for plists

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:13 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> writes:
> 
> > Currently, plist debugging "enforces" that the plist is locked
> > with either a raw_spinlock or a spinlock. The plist data structure
> > is useful in other places, where spinlocks are unnecessary.
> >
> > Extend the plist initializers and debug checks to allow the plist
> > to be protected by a mutex
> 
> Seems really ugly and clearly not a godo path. 
> 
> It's a bit like adding a 11th argument to a function which already has 
> 10.
> 
> Perhaps better move out the locking completely to wrappers and remove
> the knowledge from the core plist code.

I don't think wrappers will help any. You still need to add some hook to
let the debugging know what type of lock is protecting a plist. It is
also nice annotation to see it. The code isn't that bad, and it is
compiled out when DEBUG_PI_LIST is not set.


-- Steve