From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: + update-mm-acx-driver-to-version-0331.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:07:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602010907.00368.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138771694.5123.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 07:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > -struct wlandevice {
> > +struct acx_device {
> > + /* most frequent accesses first (dereferencing and cache line!) */
> > +
> > + /*** Locking ***/
> > + struct semaphore sem;
> > + spinlock_t lock;
> > +#if defined(PARANOID_LOCKING) /* Lock debugging */
> > + const char *last_sem;
> > + const char *last_lock;
> > + unsigned long sem_time;
> > + unsigned long lock_time;
> > +#endif
> > +
>
> any chance of turning this into a mutex instead?
> (and you get some of the debugging for free instead that way)
(/me is reading Ingo's docs...)
Nice :)
Yes, we will do the conversion later. For now we want our driver
usable on vanilla 2.6.10.
--
vda
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