Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6] Completely out of line spinlocks / i386 | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:33:07 +0200 |
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Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> writes:
> Index: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c > diff -N linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c > --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 > +++ linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c 8 Aug 2004 05:39:13 -0000
Why not just make this an assembler source? It contains no real C code. The only downside is that EXPORT_SYMBOL must be moved elsewhere, but on the other hand it would make the assembler code more readable,
> +#define PROC(name) \ > + ".align 4\n" \ > + ".globl " #name"\n" \ > + #name":\n"
and you could use ENTRY from <linux/linkage.h>.
Andreas.
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