Re: Define __raw_read_lock etc for uniprocessor builds

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:29 -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:17:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:09:54PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > > 
> > > Make NOPed versions of __raw_read_lock and family available
> > > under uniprocessor kernels.
> > > 
> > > Discovered when compiling a uniprocessor kernel with the
> > > fusyn patch applied.
> > > 
> > > The standard kernel does not use __raw_read_lock etc
> > > outside of spinlock.c, which may account for this bug
> > > being undiscovered until now.
> > 
> > No one should call these directly.   Please fix your odd patch instead.
> 
> Actually the patch calls the _raw version which is #defined to the __raw
> version.  So it is doing the correct thing.

no it's not, it has no business calling the _raw version either.


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