From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve spinlock debugging
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:08:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C221B09.4090201@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0BDC33.6E18C815@colorfullife.com> <20011219025332.GA18344@krispykreme>
Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
>What do you think of the idea below? We create arch specific spinlock
>functions as __foo and wrap the debugging bits around them as foo. This
>should also allow us to unify the UP and SMP spinlock debugging somewhat.
>
I tried to create a minimal patch, to reduce the probability of patch
conflicts with earlier/future kernels.
I agree that your solutition is better if the patch is included in
Linus/Marcelo's tree.
Have you asked Linus about it? I love runtime checks, but IIRC the
majority of the kernel maintainers disagrees.
--
Manfred
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-20 17:08 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
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 [this message]
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