Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frank Rowand <frowand@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I looked at all the architectures and found that the disparity of the 
> type of the "lock" field in struct rwlock_t is even larger than I had 
> indicated in my earlier email.  I am attaching a proof of concept 
> patch to handle this.  If this looks like a good method to you then I 
> will create a real patch against your current patch, and include i386, 
> mips, x86_64, and ppc.

> +#include <asm/raw_spinlock.h>

>  typedef struct {
> -       volatile unsigned long lock;
> +       ARCH_RAW_RWLOCK_LOCK

maybe the simplest method would be to let architectures to define the 
raw spinlock type after all. I was hoping to standardize things across 
all architectures, but maybe it's not possible.

	Ingo
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