From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932985AbWFWJ7q (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:59:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932987AbWFWJ7p (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:59:45 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:28374 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932986AbWFWJ7o (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:59:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:54:49 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [patch 46/61] lock validator: special locking: slab Message-ID: <20060623095449.GH4889@elte.hu> References: <20060529212109.GA2058@elte.hu> <20060529212649.GT3155@elte.hu> <20060529183549.97a90e12.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060529183549.97a90e12.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5004] 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:26:49 +0200 > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > + /* > > + * Do not assume that spinlocks can be initialized via memcpy: > > + */ > > I'd view that as something which should be fixed in mainline. yeah. I got bitten by this (read: pulled hair for hours) when converting the slab spinlocks to rtmutexes in the -rt tree. Ingo