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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:56:11 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kirk True <kernel@kirkandsheila.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unused CONFIG_LOCKMETER functions
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Kirk True <kernel@kirkandsheila.com> wrote:
>

(Please wrap your emails to < 80 columns)

> I'm working on porting SGI's lockmeter to 2.6 when I chanced upon this. I was very perplexed that it's in there since this is the only place that it appears in the codebase (according to grep).

Ray Bryant (cc'ed here) probably has a mostly-up-to-date lockmeter patch.  It
would be better to work starting from that.

>          Signed-off-by: Kirk True <kirk@kirkandsheila.com>
> 
>  diff -urpN linux-2.6.11.9/include/linux/spinlock.h

You should work against the development kernel.  We've added 22MB of diff
since 2.6.11.