Re: [PATCH] rwlock_is_locked undefined for UP systems

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 08:58:38 EST


On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 14:45, Prashanth T wrote:
> Hi,
> I had to use rwlock_is_locked( ) with linux2.6 for kdb and noticed that
> this routine to be undefined for UP. I have attached the patch for 2.6.1
> below to return 0 for rwlock_is_locked( ) on UP systems.
> Please let me know.

I consider any user of this on UP to be broken, just like UP use of
spin_is_locked() is always a bug..... better a compiletime bug than a
runtime bug I guess...

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