Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:28:33 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > Well plan B is to kill spinlock_t.break_lock. > > And plan C is to use a bit_spinlock() against page->flags.
please dont. Bit-spinlock is a PITA because it is non-debuggable and non-preempt-friendly. (In fact in -rt i have completely eliminated bit_spinlock(), because it's also such a PITA to type-encapsulate it sanely.)
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