Re: [KJ] remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

Matthew Wilcox
2007-04-10T22:08:09Z

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:45:07PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that works fine if you're defining a single spinlock, but what do you
> do in cases like this:
>
> arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c: [0 ... (ATOMIC_HASH_SIZE-1)] = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
>
> that is, when you're assigning an array of them? you still need some
> kind of generic, unnamed spinlock in those circumstances, no?

That's a special case for architecture-only code. It's not to be used
by drivers.