Re: [patch 1/3] spinlock fix #1, *_can_lock() primitives

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> I can do ppc64 myself, can others fix the other architectures (Ingo,
> shouldn't the UP case have the read/write_can_lock() cases too? And
> wouldn't you agree that it makes more sense to have the rwlock test
> variants in asm/rwlock.h?):

(untested) ia64 version below. Differs from x86/x64.

	Ingo

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--- linux/include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h.orig
+++ linux/include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h
@@ -128,8 +128,27 @@ typedef struct {
 #define RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED (rwlock_t) { 0, 0 }
 
 #define rwlock_init(x)		do { *(x) = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED; } while(0)
-#define rwlock_is_locked(x)	(*(volatile int *) (x) != 0)
 
+/**
+ * read_can_lock - would read_trylock() succeed?
+ * @lock: the rwlock in question.
+ */
+static inline int read_can_lock(rwlock_t *rw)
+{
+	return *(volatile int *)rw >= 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * write_can_lock - would write_trylock() succeed?
+ * @lock: the rwlock in question.
+ */
+static inline int write_can_lock(rwlock_t *rw)
+{
+	return *(volatile int *)rw = 0;
+}
+ 
+ /*
+  * On x86, we implement read-write locks as a 32-bit counter
 #define _raw_read_lock(rw)								\
 do {											\
 	rwlock_t *__read_lock_ptr = (rw);						\