Re: [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 21:39:31 EST


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:32:58PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I ran into instant pain because various read_lock() -related locking
> primitives don't exist... first approximation:
> This patch folds __preempt_spin_lock() and __preempt_write_lock() into
> their callers, and follows Ingo's patch in sweeping various other locking
> variants into doing likewise for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y && CONFIG_SMP=y.
> Compiletested on ia64.

Don't bother with this, Ingo's preempt-smp.patch at least got
_raw_read_trylock() implemented so just use that.


-- wli
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