Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 12:15:22 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:42:33AM +0100, blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> From: <domen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <user-mode-linux-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <domen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <amitg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <gud@xxxxxxx>
>
> Unify the spinlock initialization as far as possible.

Are you sure this is really the best option in this instance?
Sometimes, static data initialisation is more efficient than
code-based manual initialisation, especially when the memory
is written to anyway.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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