From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:40:34 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] to remove unused hcl_spinlock Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:01:40 -0700, "David C. Hansen" said: David.Hansen> I was looking at spinlocks in the kernel and came David.Hansen> across hcl_spinlock. If you look at this paper: David.Hansen> http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock , David.Hansen> you can see a part on hcl_spinlock. It is David.Hansen> initialized. but never used. Was this lock meant to David.Hansen> guard something? Is that thing still in the code? If David.Hansen> it isn't, here is a patch to remove hcl_spinlock. Just FYI: stuff in the sn/ subdirectories is SGI specific. Since I can't test that, I try to avoid touching it and it would be up to SGI to incorporate your patch (I suspect they have fixed that already: the SN code hasn't been synced in a while). --david