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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:49:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080226104948.GA32659@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226102149.GE20322@shadowen.org>


* Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

> Ok, so that would be the following, work for everyone?
> 
> WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores
> #1: FILE: Z95.c:1:
> +       DECLARE_MUTEX(&foo);
> 
> WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores
> #3: FILE: Z95.c:3:
> +       init_MUTEX(&foo);

yeah.

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

also i guess init_MUTEX_LOCKED() should emit a "this should be a 
completion" warning.

i guess non-DEFINE_SPINLOCK old-style spinlock definition:

  spinlock_t lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;

should emit a 'use DEFINE_SPINLOCK' warning as well?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-24 17:03 [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1 Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-24 17:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-25 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-25 23:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-26  2:42     ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-26  8:57       ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-26 17:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-26 10:21     ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-26 10:49       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-02-26 15:20         ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-26 20:02   ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-26 17:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-02-27 20:28   ` Pekka Paalanen

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