Re: [RT] seqlocks: use of PICK_FUNCTION breaks kernel compile whenCONFIG_GENERIC_TIME is NOT set

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Oct 17 2007 - 11:26:27 EST


On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:10 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > >
> > > #define read_seqbegin_irqsave(lock, flags) \
> > > -do { \
> > > +({ \
> > > flags = PICK_SEQ_OP_RET(__read_seqbegin_irqsave_raw, \
> > > __read_seqbegin_irqsave, lock); \
> > > -} while (0)
> > > + read_seqbegin(lock); \
> > > +})
>
> Yes, definitely the raw and unraw functions should be called
> local_irqsave_raw or something else that makes this obvious to what it
> is doing.

Hmm.. I'm not sure what else to name them .. Since it's in the seqlock.h
I don't think it should be called anything "local_irq*" .. It could be
seq_irqsave_{raw} .

Daniel

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