Re: [PATCH] spinlock metering (2.3.42)

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 06:14:14 EST

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hawkes@sgi.com (John Hawkes) writes:

> Please consider this SMP i386 patch against 2.3.42 to add a "spinlock
> metering"
> enhancement. This patch is also found at:
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lockmeter/download/

[...]

The return values in the /proc support functions seem to be wrong. Linux
generally uses negated errnos for errors, you use positive ones.
put_lockmeter_info should return the number of bytes writen when
successfull.

-Andi

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