* Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Here's a patch that adds the missing read_is_locked() and
> >> write_is_locked() macros for IA64. When combined with Ingo's
> >> patch, I can boot an SMP kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.
> >>
> >> However, I feel these macros are misnamed: read_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for writing; write_is_locked() returns
> >> true if the lock is held for reading or writing.
>
> Ingo> well, 'read_is_locked()' means: "will a read_lock() succeed"
>
> Fail, surely?
yeah ... and with that i proved beyond doubt that the naming is indeed
unintuitive :-)
Ingo
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