Re: [PATCH][2.6] Completely out of line spinlocks / i386

[Andreas Schwab]

Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Index: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> diff -N linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c
> --- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> +++ linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/lib/spinlock.c	8 Aug 2004 05:39:13 -0000

Why not just make this an assembler source?  It contains no real C code.
The only downside is that EXPORT_SYMBOL must be moved elsewhere, but on
the other hand it would make the assembler code more readable,

> +#define PROC(name)	\
> +	".align 4\n" \
> +	".globl " #name"\n" \
> +	#name":\n"

and you could use ENTRY from <linux/linkage.h>.

Andreas.

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