[patch 00/15] powerpc: raw_spinlock conversions

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Feb 18 23:22:18 EST 2010


Ben,

the following patch series is from preempt-rt. It converts the locks
which need to be real spinlocks in -rt to raw_spinlocks.

There is no behaviourial change for !RT kernels because spinlocks and
raw_spinlocks are the same on !RT. So for mainline this is a pure
annotation while having it in mainline takes the burden of keeping up
with the code changes from the RT patch set.

Please consider to merge into .34.

Thanks,

	tglx





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