From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] updates XFS mutex patch
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:58:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051229165811.GA23502@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051229144824.GC18833@infradead.org>
* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> It's say just switch XFS to the one-arg mutex_init variant.
>
> And ingo. please add the mutex_t typedef, analogue to spinlock_t it's
> a totally opaqueue to the users type, so it really should be a
> typedef. After that the XFS mutex.h can just go away.
that's not possible, due to DEFINE_MUTEX() and due to struct mutex being
embedded in other structures. I dont think we want to lose that property
of struct semaphore, and only restrict mutex usage to pointers.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-29 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-29 10:59 [patch] updates XFS mutex patch Jes Sorensen
2005-12-29 11:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29 11:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-12-29 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-29 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-29 16:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-12-29 16:58 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-12-29 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-29 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
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