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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400
commit02e2407858fd62053bf60349c0e72cd1c7a4a60e (patch)
tree0ebdbddc97d3abbc675916010e7771065b70c137 /Documentation/spinlocks.txt
parent96e1c408ea8a556c5b51e0e7d56bd2afbfbf5fe9 (diff)
parent6447f55da90b77faec1697d499ed7986bb4f6de6 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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@@ -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.