Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] xen/spinlock: make recursive spinlocks a dedicated type

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

On 15/12/2022 08:03, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Might be, but do we really want that?
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to let the user explicitly say that he wants 
> a lock
> to be taken non-recursively? Allowing "spin_lock()" would add some more 
> risk to
> use it by accident e.g. because of copy/paste without noticing that it is a
> recursive lock that is taken non-recursively. Same applies for patch 
> reviews.
> I'd prefer to make this easily visible.
FWIW, +1.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall