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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH sched-devel] ftrace: trace_entries to change trace buffer size
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:14:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080418121431.7f1c05f1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0804180822510.5642@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:48:09 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> > > +		data->lock = (raw_spinlock_t)__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > > +		max_tr.data[i]->lock = (raw_spinlock_t)__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> >
> > eww.  This *really* needs explanatory comments.
> >
> 
> Actually, that's just a way of doing spin_lock_init for raw spin locks. I
> didn't see any other way.

Maybe we need raw_spin_lock_init().  And DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK()?

Although it isn't a great idea to be encouraging the use of raw 
spinlocks.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080411163923.439680284@goodmis.org>
     [not found] ` <20080411164037.219665668@goodmis.org>
     [not found]   ` <20080411214328.25c06a5d@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0804112021200.4500@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
     [not found]       ` <20080413145604.3fb396a2@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
     [not found]         ` <20080414095645.GC3761@elte.hu>
     [not found]           ` <20080414211433.3bfa5649@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
2008-04-15  1:41             ` [PATCH sched-devel] ftrace: trace_entries to change trace buffer size Steven Rostedt
2008-04-18 10:23               ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18 12:48                 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-04-18 19:14                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-18 19:25                     ` Steven Rostedt

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