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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't sleep in oops_begin()
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:00:03 +0200
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> Since it's all got "__" in the front, not good to use this method all
> over .. If you just need a real spinlock best to use
> DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK() unless your a special situation ..

Oopsing is a special situation. Nobody knows if all the fancy infrastructure
lurking inside the other macros still works.

-Andi