Re: [rfc] [patch] consolidate/clean up spinlock.h files

From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 10:51:59 EST


Hi Ingo,
you wrote:

> --- linux/lib/spinlock_debug.c.orig
> +++ linux/lib/spinlock_debug.c
> +#define SPIN_BUG_ON(cond, lock, msg) \
> + if (unlikely(cond)) spin_bug(lock, __FILE__, __LINE__, msg)
> +#define RWLOCK_BUG_ON(cond, lock, msg) \
> + if (unlikely(cond)) rwlock_bug(lock, __FILE__, __LINE__, msg)

I would suggest propagating the __FILE__ and __LINE__ from the CALLERS
of those functions in lib/spinlock_debug.c into these macros, to make
this info more useful. At the moment you just know, that the bug happend
on some spinlock/rwlock, but not who caused this.


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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