Re: [PATCH RFC] Priority boosting for preemptible RCU

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 06:10:09 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

>> + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>> + rbdp = per_cpu(rcu_boost_dat, cpu);
>> + for (i = 0; i < RCU_BOOST_ELEMENTS; i++) {
>> + rbdp[i].rbs_mutex = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
>
> Doesn't this confound lockdep? We're supposed to use spin_lock_init().
>
> Andy, can we have a checkpatch rule for SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED please? It's
> basically always wrong.

ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see
Documentation/spinlocks.txt
#58: FILE: Z17.c:55:
+ rbdp[i].rbs_mutex = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;

Also picks up the RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED version too.

-apw
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