* Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) The _raw versions are intended to be used in places where it is
> > known that preemption is already disabled, so that the overhead of
> > re-disabling/enabling it can be avoided.
>
> that's not true either. If it was, then the name would have been
> different.
indeed. The __raw versions are _not_ to be used by anything else but the
generic spinlock code. (There's one other stray use by PARISC, but that
is justified.)
[ the -rt tree makes use of 'raw_' spinlocks, but they are totally
different things. ]
Ingo
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