Re: [patch 0/9] Allow inlined spinlocks again V6

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patch set allows to have inlined spinlocks again.
> 
> V2: rewritten from scratch - now also with readable code
> 
> V3: removed macro to generate out-of-line spinlock variants since that
>     would break ctags. As requested by Arnd Bergmann.
> 
> V4: allow architectures to specify for each lock/unlock variant if
>     it should be kept out-of-line or inlined.
> 
> V5: simplify ifdefs as pointed out by Linus. Fix architecture compile
>     breakages caused by this change.
> 
> V6: rename __spin_lock_is_small to __always_inline__spin_lock as requested
>     by Ingo Molnar. That way it is more consistent with the other methods
>     used to force inlining.
>     Also simplify inlining by getting rid of the old variants to force
>     inlining of the unlock functions.
> 
> This is hopefully the final version. I did again run the whole 
> cross compiles. The patch set applies on top of latest Linus' git 
> tree, but also applies on top of linux-next.
> 
> Ingo, I assume you don't have further objections?

Yeah, looks pretty good now.

> Should this go in via -mm then?

Well, we generally do locking API changes via the locking tree.
I'll apply them and give it some testing to see whether there's
any problems with this.

	Ingo