Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 04:45:38 EST


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:34 +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> c b/kernel/spinlock.c
> index 29ab207..f769d8a 100644
> --- a/kernel/spinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/spinlock.c
> @@ -121,7 +121,11 @@ unsigned long __lockfunc _read_lock_irqsave(rwlock_t *lock)
> local_irq_save(flags);
> preempt_disable();
> rwlock_acquire_read(&lock->dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> LOCK_CONTENDED(lock, _raw_read_trylock, _raw_read_lock);
> +#else
> + _raw_read_lock_flags(lock, &flags);
> +#endif
> return flags;
> }

That should be CONFIG_LOCK_STAT.

But aside from that, I really don't like this change, I'd rather you'd
create a LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS() that can deal with this.


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