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SubjectRe: Define __raw_read_lock etc for uniprocessor builds
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:42:36PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:38 -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:32:02PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:29 -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:17:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:09:54PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Make NOPed versions of __raw_read_lock and family available
> > > > > > under uniprocessor kernels.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Discovered when compiling a uniprocessor kernel with the
> > > > > > fusyn patch applied.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The standard kernel does not use __raw_read_lock etc
> > > > > > outside of spinlock.c, which may account for this bug
> > > > > > being undiscovered until now.
> > > > >
> > > > > No one should call these directly. Please fix your odd patch instead.
> > > >
> > > > Actually the patch calls the _raw version which is #defined to the __raw
> > > > version. So it is doing the correct thing.
> > >
> > > no it's not, it has no business calling the _raw version either.
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > 1) The _raw_spin_lock family is used everywhere in the kernel.
>
> no it's not. It's used in a few very special architecture places, and in
> the spinlock.c code, and in one place of the scheduler, which is
> arguably special.
>
> I don't know what kernel you're looking at.. but it's not a kernel.org
> one.
>
>
> > 2) The _raw versions are intended to be used in places where it is
> > known that preemption is already disabled, so that the overhead of
> > re-disabling/enabling it can be avoided.
>
> that's not true either. If it was, then the name would have been
> different.

I'll leave it to Ingo to decide. After all, the NOPed versions are in the
tree already and have been for some time. They just are under the wrong
#ifdef, so it seems like it was his intent to provide it, but failed to
do so in a way that actually enabled them.

(and '_raw' is a perfect prefix for the core spinlock services).

Joe
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