[patch 00/12] arm: raw_spinlock annotations

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Oct 19 11:26:45 EDT 2010


On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> While cleaning up my repo I refound the patches and rebased them on top
> of today's Linus' tree and only needed to fix up the l2x0_lock patch as
> in the meantime a new usage hit mainline.

The patches all look harmless, but none of them has any information on
why the particular locks need to be raw_spin_lock. Ideally a raw spinlock
should be the absolute exception, and IMHO should have a comment in front
of it why it is special.

	Arnd



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