[PATCH -v3 1/7] kexec jump: clean up #ifdef and comments

[Huang Ying]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:14:21 +0800 Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> >  	xchg(&kexec_lock, 0);
> 
> kernel/kexec.c: In function 'kernel_kexec':
> kernel/kexec.c:1501: warning: value computed is not used
> 
> Is there any reason why we cannot use the more conventional
> test_and_set_bit() etc, rather than this peculiarity?
> 
> Or perhaps spin_trylock?

Hi, Andrew,

I think it is of no problem to replace xchg() with test_and_set_bit() or
spin_trylock().

Hi, Eric,

Do you have some reason to use xchg() instead of others?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying