From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux-Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:41:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250674870.7583.334.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7099.1250674686@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 10:38 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> > > which implies to me that spin_is_locked() will always return false. Is this
> > > expected behavior.
> >
> > That's wrong. spin_is_locked should always return true on UP.
>
> Surely it's not that simple? Maybe spin_is_lock() should be undefined on UP.
#define spin_is_locked(l) panic()
should sort things out quickly ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 22:09 spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor? Kumar Gala
2009-08-18 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-19 9:38 ` David Howells
2009-08-19 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-08-27 9:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-19 10:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-19 11:16 ` Leon Woestenberg
2009-08-19 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
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