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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane order
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:39:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302213959.GA9514@osiris.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070302114524.1c61cf22.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> > +/*
> > + * double_timer_lock/unlock are used to ensure that on cpu hotplug the
> > + * per cpu timer locks are always taken in the same order.
> > + */
> > +static void __devinit double_timer_lock(tvec_base_t *base1,
> > +					tvec_base_t *base2, int ind)
> > +	__acquires(base1->lock)
> > +	__acquires(base2->lock)
> 
> hm.  Can we not just pass in the spinlock_t*'s and use a common function?
> 
> 	void double_spin_lock(spinlock_t *l1, spinlock_t *l2, int ind);
> 
> that way it has nothing to do with timers and can potentially be used
> elsewhere in the kernel, too.
> 
> (what does "ind" mean?)

Sure. Will put a static inline function into include/linux/spinlock.h.
"ind" is supposed to be the short form of "indicator".

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27 15:30 timer/hrtimer & cpu hotplug lockdep complaints Heiko Carstens
2007-03-02 12:58 ` [patch] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane order Heiko Carstens
2007-03-02 13:04   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-02 14:23     ` Heiko Carstens
2007-03-02 16:48       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 19:08         ` Heiko Carstens
2007-03-02 19:45           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 21:39             ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2007-03-02 22:47               ` Heiko Carstens
2007-03-04 23:24                 ` Matt Mackall

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