Hello Peter, On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 11:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > You might want to add a note to your asm/spinlock.h that you rely on > spin_unlock() unconditionally clearing a lock. > > This isn't naturally true for all lock implementations. Consider ticket > locks, doing a surplus unlock will wreck your lock state in that case. > So anybody poking at the powerpc spinlock implementation had better know > you rely on this.
Good idea. I will add this to my changes and generate a v4. Thank you,
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