Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 schrieb jidong xiao:
>> I see struct rw_semaphore is defined in
>> include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h,in the meanwhile, I also can find it in
>
> Quote:
>
> #ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_H
> #error "please don't include linux/rwsem-spinlock.h directly, use linux/rwsem.h instead"
> #endif
>
>> include/asm-**/rwsem.h,for
>> example,include/asm-i386/rwsem.h,include/asm-x86_64/rwsem.h,why?which
>> one should be used?
>
> This structure is so important to performance that some architectures
> have version optimized to their features.
...but of course we generally include linux/rwsem.h instead of
architecture-specific header files. linux/rwsem.h will transparently
pull in the optimized variants for us. (It's evident from the source.)
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