Re: [PATCH 1/2] Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:24:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > No problem. I could then also use it for _spin_lock_irqsave, if the
> > answer to the above question is use CONFIG_LOCK_STAT there as well.
> 
> If you create LOCK_CONTEDED_FLAGS() the whole issue goes away nicely.

Should it also be used for _spin_lock_irq()?  I'm puzzled why it's only
used for _irqsave().

(should _spin_lock_bh() re-enable BHs while waiting?  Is it just not big
enough of a deal?)

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