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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@xs4all.nl>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: nigel@nrg.org, george anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve spinlock debugging
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 02:13:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0D74B8.F3FF439@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0112041321080.595-100000@cosmic.nrg.org> <1007504598.1307.30.camel@phantasy>

Hi,

Robert Love wrote:

> Right, I meant just the spin_lock_irq case, which would be fine except
> for the case where:
> 
> spin_lock_irq
> spin_unlock
> restore_irq
> 
> to solve this, we need a spin_unlock_irq_on macro that didn't touch the
> preemption count.

Has someone a real example of something like this?
I'd suspect someone is trying a (questionable) micro optimization or is
holding the lock for too long anyway. Instead of adding more macros,
maybe it's better to look closely whether something needs fixing.

bye, Roman

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03 20:10 [PATCH] improve spinlock debugging Manfred Spraul
2001-12-04  4:21 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-04  4:30   ` Robert Love
2001-12-04 20:30 ` george anzinger
2001-12-04 20:51   ` Robert Love
2001-12-04 21:25     ` george anzinger
2001-12-04 21:39       ` Robert Love
2001-12-04 22:06     ` Nigel Gamble
2001-12-04 22:23       ` Robert Love
2001-12-05  1:13         ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2001-12-05  7:41           ` george anzinger
2001-12-04 20:53   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-12-05  0:54     ` george anzinger
2001-12-04 21:20   ` Nigel Gamble
2001-12-04 21:27     ` george anzinger
2001-12-05  8:47 ` Giuliano Pochini
2001-12-05 15:42   ` Manfred Spraul
     [not found] ` <20011219025332.GA18344@krispykreme>
2001-12-20 17:08   ` Manfred Spraul

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