From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:26:45 +0200 Subject: [patch 00/12] arm: raw_spinlock annotations In-Reply-To: <20101019143717.GH11713@pengutronix.de> References: <20100217125328.791176536@linutronix.de> <20101019143717.GH11713@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <201010191726.45879.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > While cleaning up my repo I refound the patches and rebased them on top > of today's Linus' tree and only needed to fix up the l2x0_lock patch as > in the meantime a new usage hit mainline. The patches all look harmless, but none of them has any information on why the particular locks need to be raw_spin_lock. Ideally a raw spinlock should be the absolute exception, and IMHO should have a comment in front of it why it is special. Arnd