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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:41:56 +0100
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Subject: [Xenomai-core] Re: [Adeos-main] [RFC] type-based spinlock op
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:49 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> reading through the I-pipe patch I noticed that there are quite a few
> spin_lock->spin_lock_hw and similar conversions. Having the conversion
> mechanism of the -rt patch in mind, I wrote the attached I-pipe cleanup
> that applies a similar pattern on this issue. Gives more than 10k patch
> size reduction for x86 and a bit more safety against minor variations of
> the patched code. Still, review of the lock usages keeps on being
> required as the lock user could assume running IRQs off while I-pipe may
> not guarantee this.
> 
> The required patch for Xenomai is attached as well.
> 

I definitely like this. Queued for testing, thanks.

-- 
Philippe.