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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wrong test in inet_ehash_locks_alloc()
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:45:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127.174519.136722631.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497F1D46.70103@cosmosbay.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:42:14 +0100

> In commit 9db66bdcc83749affe61c61eb8ff3cf08f42afec
> (net: convert TCP/DCCP ehash rwlocks to spinlocks), I forgot to change
>  one occurrence of rwlock_t to spinlock_t
> 
> I believe sizeof(raw_spinlock_t) might be > 0 on !CONFIG_SMP if CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> while sizeof(raw_rwlock_t) should be 0 in this case.
> 
> Fortunatly, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK adds fields to both spinlock_t and rwlock_t,
> but at this might change in the future (being able to debug spinlocks but not rwlocks for
> example), better to be safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

Agreed, applied.

Thanks Eric.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-27 14:42 [PATCH] net: wrong test in inet_ehash_locks_alloc() Eric Dumazet
2009-01-28  1:45 ` David Miller [this message]

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