Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] plist: add mutex to the blessed lock type for plists | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:13:22 -0700 |
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Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> writes:
> Currently, plist debugging "enforces" that the plist is locked > with either a raw_spinlock or a spinlock. The plist data structure > is useful in other places, where spinlocks are unnecessary. > > Extend the plist initializers and debug checks to allow the plist > to be protected by a mutex
Seems really ugly and clearly not a godo path.
It's a bit like adding a 11th argument to a function which already has 10.
Perhaps better move out the locking completely to wrappers and remove the knowledge from the core plist code.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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