Hello David,
Here is the old discussion carried out on this.
http://linux-kernel.2935.n7.nabble.com/Is-spin-is-locked-safe-to-use-with-BU...
Regards Sanjeev Sharma
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:31 PM, sanjeev sharma <sanjeevsharmaengg@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello David,
Do you see any problem in replacing with assert_spin_locked() and here is old discusion around the
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:15 PM, David Rientjes rientjes@google.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote:
spin_is_locked() always returns false in uniprocessor configurations and can therefore not be used with BUG_ON. Replace it with assert_spin_locked(), which exists for that very purpose.
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