Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:39:06 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC |
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* Frank Rowand <frowand@mvista.com> wrote:
> I looked at all the architectures and found that the disparity of the > type of the "lock" field in struct rwlock_t is even larger than I had > indicated in my earlier email. I am attaching a proof of concept > patch to handle this. If this looks like a good method to you then I > will create a real patch against your current patch, and include i386, > mips, x86_64, and ppc.
> +#include <asm/raw_spinlock.h>
> typedef struct { > - volatile unsigned long lock; > + ARCH_RAW_RWLOCK_LOCK
maybe the simplest method would be to let architectures to define the raw spinlock type after all. I was hoping to standardize things across all architectures, but maybe it's not possible.
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