Re: [patch 4/6] brlock: introduce special brlocks

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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:25:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:30 +1100 npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > +#define DECLARE_BRLOCK(name)						\
> 
> This:
> 
> > + DECLARE_PER_CPU(spinlock_t, name##_lock);				\
> > + static inline void name##_lock_init(void) {				\
> > +	int i;								\
> > +	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {					\
> > +		spinlock_t *lock;					\
> > +		lock = &per_cpu(name##_lock, i);			\
> > +		spin_lock_init(lock);					\
> > +	}								\
> > + }									\
> > + static inline void name##_rlock(void) {				\
> > +	spinlock_t *lock;						\
> > +	lock = &get_cpu_var(name##_lock);				\
> > +	spin_lock(lock);						\
> > + }									\
> 
> generates a definition, not a declaration.  Hence DEFINE_BRLOCK.
> 
> </petpeeve #29>

Well yes, but being a static inline, then I don't know of a better 
way. Probably just better not to pretend we are expanding a simple
declaration here, and name it something differently? (BRLOCK_HEADER(blah))?

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