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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] x86/hpet: Pre cleanup
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:49:06 +0000
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On 08/11/13 10:37, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> 
> So what would you suggest?  Here, all the __$foo() are designed to end
> up similar to large swathes of other Xen code, implying that the
> appropriate spinlock should be held by the caller.
> 
> I am not too fussed which convention we use, so long as it is used
> consistently.

I've sometimes used a _locked suffix for this.

David