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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489B1BDC.1010504@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489B199B.40305@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Stefan Richter wrote:
> jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/mdb/mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
...
>> +typedef struct _RLOCK 
>> +{
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
>> +    spinlock_t lock;
>> +#endif
>> +    unsigned long flags;
>> +    unsigned long processor;
>> +    unsigned long count;    
>> +} rlock_t;
...
> The accessors rspin_lock() and rspin_try_lock() peek into spinlock_t and
> may therefore not be fully portable.  Also, they and rspin_unlock()
> don't look SMP safe:
...
>> +   if (rlock->lock.raw_lock.slock && rlock->processor == proc)

Correction:  They _are_ not portable.  Look at the first hit in
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.26/+code=raw_spinlock_t .
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- =--- --===
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 14:29 jmerkey
2008-08-07 15:49 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 15:59   ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-08-07 15:56     ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 16:46       ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 16:33         ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 17:19           ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 17:33             ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 17:52               ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 17:52             ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 16:04   ` jmerkey
2008-08-09  5:07   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-09  8:04     ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-09 14:44       ` jmerkey
2008-08-08  2:18 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-08-08  4:33 Parag Warudkar
2008-08-08 13:11 ` jmerkey
     [not found]   ` <37357.166.70.238.45.1218201115.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com >
2008-08-08 13:23     ` jmerkey

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