Roland Dreier wrote:
> > can rwlock_init and spin_lock_init be used outside of functions declared
> > __init. The spinlock documentation suggests that it can't but I'd like
> > someone to confirm that.
>
> Those function can be used in any function. A function is declared
> __init if it only runs during the kernel startup, so that the memory
> holding the code for __init functions can be freed once startup is
> done. However, spin_lock_init() is just used to initialize a freshly
> allocated spinlock, and spinlocks may be allocated at any time, even
> long after the kernel is done starting up. A quick look throught
> kernel source code will show many, many examples where
> spin_lock_init(), rwlock_init(), mutex_init(), etc. are called from
> non-__init functions.
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you very much.
Jack
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