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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:09:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] unified spinlock
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:04:13PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:50:47AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:44:24AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > >I think this is referring to initialisation of spinlocks that are
> > > >allocated dynamically, not statically.  If a lock validator can't cope
> > > >with that, it needs to be fixed, IMO.
> > 
> > Yes, it is.  See the number of patches that have been flowing into the
> > kernel lately to fix this issue up.
> 
> However, the correct way to fix this is to use DEFINE_SPIN_LOCK, not to
> make static locks dynamically initialised.

Where ever possible, yes.

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