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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask: fix lg_lock/br_lock.
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:58:14 +0100
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On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 09:29 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> As part of any cleanup they should first be converted from 
> arch_spinlock_t to regular spinlock_t - I bet if that is done 
> then that not only simplifies the wrappers massively, it also 
> turns the above soft lockup report into a nice, actionable 
> lockdep splat. 

It might help if you'd actually read the code.. that will simply not
work.