Re: [patch] spinlock debug: make looping nicer

2007-06-21 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:15:25PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > btw., back then we also tried a spin_is_locked() based inner loop > > > but it didnt help the ->tree_lock lockups either. In any

Re: [patch] spinlock debug: make looping nicer

2007-06-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > btw., back then we also tried a spin_is_locked() based inner loop > > but it didnt help the ->tree_lock lockups either. In any case i very > > much agree that the 'nicer' looping should be added again

Re: [patch] spinlock debug: make looping nicer

2007-06-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > btw., back then we also tried a spin_is_locked() based inner loop but it > didnt help the ->tree_lock lockups either. In any case i very much agree > that the 'nicer' looping should be added again - the patch below does > that. (build and boot teste