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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Prashanth T <prasht@in.ibm.com>,
	rml@tech9.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rwlock_is_locked undefined for UP systems
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:53:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116145311.GD1740@reti> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074261350.4434.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:55:50PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 14:45, Prashanth T wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I had to use rwlock_is_locked( ) with linux2.6 for kdb and noticed that
> > this routine to be undefined for UP.  I have attached the patch for 2.6.1
> > below to return 0 for rwlock_is_locked( ) on UP systems.
> > Please let me know.
> 
> I consider any user of this on UP to be broken, just like UP use of
> spin_is_locked() is always a bug..... better a compiletime bug than a
> runtime bug I guess...

Then maybe a #error explaining this is in order ?

- Joe



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16 13:45 [PATCH] rwlock_is_locked undefined for UP systems Prashanth T
2004-01-16 13:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-16 14:53   ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2004-01-16 15:14     ` Nikita Danilov
2004-01-16 18:10       ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-16 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-19  6:12   ` Prashanth T

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