Re: [PATCH] _raw_read_trylock for alpha

2005-03-19 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:39:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Don't send this patch upstream until its been verified to actually work. It certainly won't. I'll gen up something soon. r~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] _raw_read_trylock for alpha

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
alpha SMP doesn't build, due to lack of _raw_read_trylock(). Patch below completely untested... needs review and testing. One could also use the arch-neutral generic_raw_read_trylock(), but that implementation is rather lame (it spins). I'm amazed at the number of arches that use the generic i