On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:01:53PM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:38:37AM +0530, Sanjeev Sharma wrote:
> > spin_is_locked() always return false in uniprocessor configuration and 
> > therefore it
> > would be advise to replace with lockdep_assert_held().
> 
> Add "on some architectures" in here somewhere, as it's not broken on the
> large majority of UP cpus :)
> 
FWIW, it is confirmed broken on mips (32 and 64 bit), ppc, and sparc64.
I have not tested on x86. Might be worth trying. arm64 seems to be ok,
unless I did something wrong in my test, as well as at least some of
the architectures which don't support smp to start with (such as sparc32
or microblaze).

Guenter
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