linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/26] trace: Convert various locks to raw

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Message-ID: <1263397315.28171.3827.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:41:55 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/26] trace: Convert various locks to raw_spinlock

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:36 +0100, John Kacur wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > 
> Thanks for the review Steve and Frederic - I'll spin a new patch that 
> doesn't convert tracing_start_lock.
> 
> However, let's give it some good testing in preempt-rt, because we may 
> have forgotten over time, why we converted these locks.

Well, I think we just never unconverted them :-)  I think we took the
paranoid approach and converted all locks in the trace directory to raw.
In fact, I think I even had a script to do it.

-- Steve


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