>
>What do you think of the idea below? We create arch specific spinlock
>functions as __foo and wrap the debugging bits around them as foo. This
>should also allow us to unify the UP and SMP spinlock debugging somewhat.
>
I tried to create a minimal patch, to reduce the probability of patch
conflicts with earlier/future kernels.
I agree that your solutition is better if the patch is included in
Linus/Marcelo's tree.
Have you asked Linus about it? I love runtime checks, but IIRC the
majority of the kernel maintainers disagrees.
--
Manfred
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