Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:01:27 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 15/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, arch-semaphores.patch |
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:40:43AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > mark all semaphores that are known to be used in a non-mutex fashion, as > arch_semaphores. This has relevance for the CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL > debugging kernel: these semaphores will never be changed to mutexes, not > even for debugging purposes.
NACK. Just keep these as struct semaphore. Maybe one day we can do a simple machine-independ semaphore implementation for the few cases remaining, but this renaming is just rather silly.
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