linux-kernel - Re: spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor?

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:32:34 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linux-Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor?

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 11:41 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > which implies to me that spin_is_locked() will always return
> false.  Is this
> > > > expected behavior.
> > > 
> > > That's wrong. spin_is_locked should always return true on UP.
> > 
> > Surely it's not that simple?  Maybe spin_is_lock() should be
> undefined on UP.
> 
> #define spin_is_locked(l) panic()
> 
> should sort things out quickly ;-)

Not defining it would sort things out even faster and avoid nasty case
of system panic'ing when a module is loaded :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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