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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [109/145] x86_64: Convert modlist_lock to be a raw spinlock
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> 
> > What is the official portable interface to do a raw spinlock
> > if this one doesn't work?
> 
> I don't see a way, really.  Apart from going in and implementing it on the
> various architectures.

Hmpf. Maybe lockdep just needs a recursion check.

-Andi