On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 15:30 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > sb->s_files is converted to a lock_list. furthermore to prevent the
> > > > lock_list_head of getting too contended with concurrent add
> > > > operations the add is buffered in per cpu filevecs.
> > >
> > > NACK. Please don't start using lockdep internals in core code.
> >
> > what do you mean by that?
>
> struct lock_list is an lockdep implementation detail and should not
> leak out and be used anywhere else. If we want something similar it
> should be given a proper name and a header of it's own, but I don't
> think it's a valueable abstraction for the core kernel.
please see patch 2/7, its unrelated to lockdep internals.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
