raw_spinlock_t rules

[Avi Kivity]

 Some time ago, the i8259 emulation code in kvm was changed to use 
raw_spinlock_t, as it was called in a preempt_disable() and 
local_irq_disable() context, which doesn't work with preemptible 
spinlocks used with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

In Linux 2.6.37, the spinlock will no longer be taken in these contexts, 
so I'd like to change it to a normal spinlock_t.  However, it is still 
taken in a spin_lock_irq() context.

Is it okay to do this change?  I figured since spin_lock_irq() is part 
of the spinlock infrastructure it might to the right thing.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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