On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:52:46 +0200
Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 August 2006 07:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:37:07 +0200 (CEST)
> > Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > This is a preparationary patch for converting stacktrace over to the
> > > new dwarf2 unwinder. lockdep uses stacktrace and the new unwinder
> > > takes the modlist_lock so using a normal spinlock would cause a deadlock.
> > > Use a raw lock instead.
> > >
> >
> > It breaks the build on most architectures.
>
> Hmm, I grepped and most architectures seem to have both __raw_spin_lock
> and local_save_flags.
box:/usr/src/25> grep -l raw_local_save_flags include/asm-*/*.h
include/asm-avr32/irqflags.h
include/asm-i386/irqflags.h
include/asm-mips/irqflags.h
include/asm-powerpc/irqflags.h
include/asm-s390/irqflags.h
include/asm-x86_64/irqflags.h
> I didn't actually compile them because crosstool
> doesn't love me anymore since I use gcc 4.0.
crosstool is a bit of a bitch.
> What is the official portable interface to do a raw spinlock
> if this one doesn't work?
I don't see a way, really. Apart from going in and implementing it on the
various architectures.
Perhaps x86_64-mm-module-locks-raw-spinlock-hack-hack-hack.patch could be
hoisted up to include/linux/spinlock.h and then at least only
lockdep-enabled architectures need to implement these things.
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