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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 00:47:49 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] locking: Document the semantics of
 spin_is_locked()
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Can't we just kill off spin_is_locked?  It seems pretty much all uses
should simply be replaced with lockdep annotations, and there aren't
many to start with.