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authorRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>2008-04-21 22:44:50 +0000
committerJesper Juhl <juhl@hera.kernel.org>2008-04-21 22:44:50 +0000
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DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 2e9d6b41f034..22ebd27a257e 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
};
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
-+static spinlock_t cache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
++static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cache_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(cache);
static unsigned int cache_num = 0;
#define MAX_CACHE_SIZE 10
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ Here is the "lock-per-object" implementation:
- int popularity;
};
- static spinlock_t cache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cache_lock);
@@ -77,6 +84,7 @@
obj-&gt;id = id;
obj-&gt;popularity = 0;
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 93f223b9723f..4dbb8be1c991 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ lock themselves, if required. Drivers that explicitly used the
io_request_lock for serialization need to be modified accordingly.
Usually it's as easy as adding a global lock:
- static spinlock_t my_driver_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(my_driver_lock);
and passing the address to that lock to blk_init_queue().
diff --git a/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt b/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt
index 0223c9d20331..60932b02fcb3 100644
--- a/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ would execute while the cli()-ed section is executing.
but from now on a more direct method of locking has to be used:
- spinlock_t driver_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(driver_lock);
struct driver_data;
irq_handler (...)