Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: Dead spinlock fields | Date | 11 Jan 1998 16:52:59 GMT |
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In article <19980111102037.3681.qmail@mail.ocs.com.au>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote: >include/asm-i386/spinlock.h defines a spinlock with a "previous" field >that is never used. Even in alpha/spinlock, the field is only used to >print info for stuck spinlocks. Do we still need the "previous" field >in spinlocks?
No. It was only used while debugging the very initial new SMP code, it is fairly useless now. I guess I should just remove it.
Linus
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