Re: [patch] 2.6.6-rc2 Allow architectures to reenable interrupts on contended spinlocks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:05:25PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:36:48 +1000, 
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I was just thinking yesterday that it would be good to reenable
> >interrupts during spin_lock_irq on ppc64.  I am hacking on the
> >spinlocks for ppc64 at the moment and this looks like something worth
> >adding.
> >
> >Why not keep _raw_spin_lock as it is and only use _raw_spin_lock_flags
> >in the spin_lock_irq{,save} case?
> 
> Using both _raw_spin_lock and _raw_spin_lock_flags doubles the amount
> of code to maintain.

So define _raw_spin_lock to _raw_spin_lock_flags(lock, 0) in ia64 code?

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