On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:35:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:50:58 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The whole raw_spinlock_t is for RT, no other reason. > > Oh. I never realised that. > > Is this documented anywhere? Do there exist guidelines which tell > non-rt developers and reviewers when it should be used? I'm afraid not; I'll put it on the todo list ... I've also been working on some lockdep validation for the lock order stuff.
