Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:25:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] generalized spin_lock_bit |
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On 20 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > My assumption was similar - that the bit locking may be inefficient on > other architectures - so I put the spin_lock_bit code in per-arch > headers.
Well, but you also passed it an unsigned long, and the bit number.
Which at least to me implies that they have to set that bit.
Which is totally unnecessary, if they _instead_ decide to set something else altogether.
For example, the implementation on pte_chain_lock(page) might be something like this instead:
static void pte_chain_lock(struct page *page) { unsigned long hash = hash(page) & PTE_CHAIN_MASK; spin_lock(pte_chain[hash]); }
static void pte_chain_unlock(struct page *page) { unsigned long hash = hash(page) & PTE_CHAIN_MASK; spin_unlock(pte_chain[hash]); }
> In other words, I assumed we may need to make some changes but to > bit-locking in general and not rip out the whole design.
bit-locking in general doesn't work. Some architectures can sanely only lock a byte (or even just a word).
Linus
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