From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:24:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910045650.206202C2C4@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:17:44 +0100." <20020909131744.G10583@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
In message <20020909131744.G10583@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> you write:
> Rusty wrote:
> > Yeah, but you can still leave a spinlock uninitialized, and it'll
> > work.
>
> If your architecture has load-and-zero as its only atomic primitive,
> leaving spinlocks uninitialised will _not_ work ;-)
<sigh>
Context: static initializers. ie. you can use dynamic initialization
on your spinlocks.
Rusty.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 12:17 [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2002-09-05 9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04 2:35 Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 4:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 4:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09 8:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 5:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:00 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 6:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 7:38 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-09 3:45 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 9:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 15:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04 3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
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