Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] xen/spinlock: add explicit non-recursive locking functions

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 14.12.22 11:32, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 14.12.2022 11:21, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > On 10.09.2022 17:49, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > In order to prepare a type-safe recursive spinlock structure, add
> > > explicitly non-recursive locking functions to be used for non-recursive
> > > locking of spinlocks, which are use recursively, too.
> > While I can see that something needs doing, a function name like
> > spin_unlock_nonrecursive_irqrestore() is really unwieldy, imo.
> While further looking at patch 2 - how about rspinlock_t and rspin_lock()
> etc, and then nrspin_lock() etc here?
Would work for me.


Juergen

Attachment: OpenPGP_0xB0DE9DD628BF132F.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key

Attachment: OpenPGP_signature
Description: OpenPGP digital signature