Re: [patch] updates XFS mutex patch

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's say just switch XFS to the one-arg mutex_init variant.
> 
> And ingo. please add the mutex_t typedef, analogue to spinlock_t it's 
> a totally opaqueue to the users type, so it really should be a 
> typedef.  After that the XFS mutex.h can just go away.

that's not possible, due to DEFINE_MUTEX() and due to struct mutex being 
embedded in other structures. I dont think we want to lose that property 
of struct semaphore, and only restrict mutex usage to pointers.

	Ingo
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