On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:06:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 3. Since SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED now takes the lock itself as an
> > argument, what is the best way to initialize per-CPU
> > locks? An explicit initialization function, or is there
> > some way that I am missing to make an initializer?
>
> Ouch, I just notice that (been using an older version for some time).
>
> Ingo, is this to force the initialization of the lists instead of at
> runtime?
ANSI C99 is missing a concept of "self" during auto-intialization. The
explicit passing of the lvalue is needed so that it can be propagated
downward to other macros in the initialization structure. list_head
initialization is one of those things if I remember correctly.
bill
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