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SubjectRe: Horrible regression with -CURRENT from "Don't busy-lock-loop in preemptable spinlocks" patch

* Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> Here's a patch that adds the missing read_is_locked() and
> write_is_locked() macros for IA64. When combined with Ingo's patch, I
> can boot an SMP kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.
>
> However, I feel these macros are misnamed: read_is_locked() returns
> true if the lock is held for writing; write_is_locked() returns true
> if the lock is held for reading or writing.

well, 'read_is_locked()' means: "will a read_lock() succeed" [assuming
no races]. Should name it read_trylock_test()/write_trylock_test()
perhaps?

Ingo
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