Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix. | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:24:56 +1000 |
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In message <20020909131744.G10583@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> you write: > Rusty wrote: > > Yeah, but you can still leave a spinlock uninitialized, and it'll > > work. > > If your architecture has load-and-zero as its only atomic primitive, > leaving spinlocks uninitialised will _not_ work ;-)
<sigh>
Context: static initializers. ie. you can use dynamic initialization on your spinlocks.
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