On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:55 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > If you want to use bitops as spinlocks you should rather be using > <linux/bit_spinlock.h>. That also does the right thing w.r.t. > pre-emption and sparse locking annotations.
Heh, I didn't know about those... A bit annoying that I can't override them in the arch, I might be able to save a barrier or two here. Our test_and_set_bit() contains both barriers for lock and unlock semantics to cope with all kind of abuses, but your bit_spinlock obviously doesn't need that. Cheers, Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
