linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aoe, tb0219: fix late spin_lock

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:08:36 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	ecashin@...aid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aoe, tb0219: fix late spin_lock_init() and friends

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:36:09PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:02:21 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > Some drivers do register_chrdev() before lock or semaphore used in
> > corresponding file_operations is initialized.

> > --- a/drivers/char/tb0219.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/tb0219.c
> > @@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ static int __devinit tb0219_probe(struct
> >  {
> >  	int retval;
> >
> > +	spin_lock_init(&tb0219_lock);
> > +
> >  	if (request_mem_region(TB0219_START, TB0219_SIZE, "TB0219") == NULL)
> >  		return -EBUSY;
> >
> > @@ -304,8 +306,6 @@ static int __devinit tb0219_probe(struct
> >  		return retval;
> >  	}
> >
> > -	spin_lock_init(&tb0219_lock);
> > -
> >  	old_machine_restart = _machine_restart;
> >  	_machine_restart = tb0219_restart;
> >
>
> These locks can and should be initialised at compile-time.

Documentation mentions that

	- it [dynamic spinlock initialization] hurts automatic lock validators
	- it becomes intrusive for the realtime preemption patches

First reason is clearly bogus, how relevant is the second one?

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