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SubjectRe: [patch 27/61] lock validator: prove spinlock/rwlock locking correctness

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:25:23 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > +# define spin_lock_init_key(lock, key) \
> > + __spin_lock_init((lock), #lock, key)
>
> erk. This adds a whole new layer of obfuscation on top of the
> existing spinlock header files. You already need to run the
> preprocessor and disassembler to even work out which flavour you're
> presently using.
>
> Ho hum.

agreed. I think the API we started using in latest -mm
(lockdep_init_key()) is the cleaner approach - that also makes it
trivially sure that lockdep doesnt impact non-lockdep code. I'll fix the
current lockdep_init_key() shortcomings and i'll get rid of the
*_init_key() APIs.

Ingo
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