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author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400 |
commit | 02e2407858fd62053bf60349c0e72cd1c7a4a60e (patch) | |
tree | 0ebdbddc97d3abbc675916010e7771065b70c137 /Documentation/spinlocks.txt | |
parent | 96e1c408ea8a556c5b51e0e7d56bd2afbfbf5fe9 (diff) | |
parent | 6447f55da90b77faec1697d499ed7986bb4f6de6 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/spinlocks.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spinlocks.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt b/Documentation/spinlocks.txt index 178c831b907..2e3c64b1a6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt +++ b/Documentation/spinlocks.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ to change the variables it has to get an exclusive write lock. The routines look the same as above: - rwlock_t xxx_lock = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED; + rwlock_t xxx_lock = __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(xxx_lock); unsigned long flags; @@ -196,25 +196,3 @@ appropriate: For static initialization, use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() / DEFINE_RWLOCK() or __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED() / __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as appropriate. - -SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED are deprecated. These interfere -with lockdep state tracking. - -Most of the time, you can simply turn: - static spinlock_t xxx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; -into: - static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock); - -Static structure member variables go from: - - struct foo bar { - .lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; - }; - -to: - - struct foo bar { - .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(bar.lock); - }; - -Declaration of static rw_locks undergo a similar transformation. |