[Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] to remove unused hcl_spinlock

David Mosberger
2001-09-10T23:40:34Z

>>>>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:01:40 -0700, "David C. Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com> 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