linux-kernel - Re: x86: spinlocks: define dummy __raw_spin_is

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20090208235149.GA23217@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:51:49 +0000
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: x86: spinlocks: define dummy __raw_spin_is_contended

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:

> From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>
> 
> Architectures other than mips and x86 are not using ticket
> spinlocks. Therefore, the contention on the lock is meaningless,
> since there is nobody known to be waiting on it (arguably /fairly/
> unfair locks) Dummy it out to return 0 on other architectures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

  Ralf
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/