Re: down_spin() implementation

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Mar 28 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:51:04PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > It used to be illegal to pass flags as parameters. IIRC, sparc did some
> > trickery with it. That may still be the case, I haven't checked in a
> > long time.
> 
> That problem was removed before 2.6 started, iirc.  At least the chapter
> on 'The Fucked Up Sparc' [1] was removed before 2.6.12-rc2 (the
> beginning of git history and I can't be bothered to pinpoint it more
> precisely).

OK

> > Why not just fold __down_spin() into down_spin() and get rid of that
> > nasty anyway?
> 
> Could have done.  It's moot now that Nick's pointed out how unsafe it
> is to mix down_spin() with plain down().
> 
> [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/x467.html

Yeah saw that after replying, so no problem then :)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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