Re: [build failure] Re: BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 14:02:24 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > How painful would it be to move lock_depth into thread_struct? I guess
> > we don't have anything that cares about structure offsets in assembly
> > for that thing.  I should just try.
>
> Gaah, the only generic field there is the restart_block, so we'd have
> to hide it there, or then add it to each architecture. So scratch
> that.
>
> I guess this is the simplest approach.
>
> Linus

> include/linux/hardirq.h | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hardirq.h b/include/linux/hardirq.h
> index 714da7e..32f9fd6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hardirq.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hardirq.h
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
> #define in_nmi() (preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && defined(CONFIG_BKL)
> +# include <linux/sched.h>
> # define PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE (current->lock_depth >= 0)
> #else
> # define PREEMPT_INATOMIC_BASE 0

Hey, i will quote this patch in the future, when you flame me about some ugly
compatibility hack ;-)

I guess it will all go away with CONFIG_BKL so we dont really care so deeply. I'll
test it.

Thanks,

Ingo
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