Re: [patch 2/6 -rt] powerpc 2.6.20-rt8: to convert spinlocks to raw ones.

Sergei Shtylyov
2007-03-07T14:38:32Z

Hello.

Tsutomu OWA wrote:

> --- linux-rt8/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c 2007-02-20 14:30:38.000000000 +0900
> +++ rt/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c 2007-03-05 18:54:34.000000000 +0900
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_softirq);
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
>
> static LIST_HEAD(irq_hosts);
> -static spinlock_t irq_big_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(irq_big_lock);
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_radix_reader);
> static unsigned int irq_radix_writer;
> struct irq_map_entry irq_map[NR_IRQS];

I've already sent a patch fixing this one (along with many others) a month
ago:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-February/031164.html

I wonder iof it was ever considered... :-/

WBR, Sergei