Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:31:02 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Weirdness in SPARC patches in 2.1.127 |
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 21:36:07 -0400 From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
/* Kernel spinlock */ spinlock_t kernel_flag = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+/* Used to make bitops atomic */ +unsigned char bitops_spinlock = 0; +
Shouldn't both be the same type and initialization?
It really doesn't matter, and it's only accessed in a hardcoded way in assembly so we don't want to use spinlock_t and get the debugging version of the type for example because the asm code doesn't want that.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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