Re: [PATCH] RFC: abstract access to xtime_lock into a set of inlinefunctions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Torben Hohn wrote:
> the -rt patches change the xtime_lock to a raw_seqlock_t
> so a pretty huge portion of the patch deals with changing
> the locking functions.
> 
> this commit uses inline functions, to hide the type
> of the lock.

That's not how kernel code usually works.

> -	write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
> +	xtime_write_seqlock();
>  	do_timer(1);
> -	write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
> +	xtime_write_sequnlock();

However there's a pretty clear pattern of taking xtime_lock, calling
do_timer and then releasing.  A useful thing you could do is to rename
do_timer to do_timer_locked and make do_timer take and release
xtime_lock in one place.

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