From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750844AbVJNSd2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750842AbVJNSd2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:10147 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750832AbVJNSd2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:32:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" Cc: 76306.1226@compuserve.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc4] i386: spinlock optimization Message-Id: <20051014113247.153cc5cc.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200510141350_MC3-1-ACA0-C8C9@compuserve.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" wrote: > > Somehow, these spin-locks got all screwed up. > > Given: nobody has the lock. The lock variable is 0. Unlocked locks have .raw_lock.slock = 1, not 0.