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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/3] locking: Document the semantics of spin_is_locked()
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 12:47:49AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Can't we just kill off spin_is_locked? It seems pretty much all uses
> should simply be replaced with lockdep annotations, and there aren't
> many to start with.

Yeah, this is not the first time such a question has been raised ;) In fact,
some people (see, e.g., Peter's comment in this thread) have also suggested
extending it to {mutex,rwsem,bit_spin}_is_locked (the number of uses would
then increase to a few hundreds, and lockdep would need some extensions...).
Of course, removing the docbook headers should not cause particular trouble,
once/if the removal of these primitives will be realized... ;)

Andrea
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