Re: [PATCH] generalized spin_lock_bit

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 02:31, David S. Miller wrote:
> For an asm-generic/bitlock.h implementation it is more than
> fine.  That way we get asm-i386/bitlock.h that does whatever
> it wants to do and the rest of asm-*/bitlock.h includes
> the generic version until the arch maintainer sees fit to
> do otherwise.

For an asm-generic one yes. Although you do need to add a cpu_relax() in
the inner loop

Alan