Re: [patch 46/61] lock validator: special locking: slab

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:26:49 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Do not assume that spinlocks can be initialized via memcpy:
> > +		 */
> 
> I'd view that as something which should be fixed in mainline.

yeah. I got bitten by this (read: pulled hair for hours) when converting 
the slab spinlocks to rtmutexes in the -rt tree.

	Ingo
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