[Ocfs2-devel] RE: [Ocfs2-users] RE: Playing with OCFS2

[Mark Fasheh]

Ahh, good catch! I removed those lines of code as that check is not really
needed (it's simple enough to follow). Thanks!
	--Mark

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Villalovos, John L wrote:
> Enclosed please find a patch which fixes the issue I had.
> 
> The root cause is that spin_trylock will always return 1 on a
> Uniprocessor (UP) system.
> 
> It appears the code in this case had an assumption of a SMP system.  The
> spin_trylock appears to be used as a debugging mechanism to make sure
> that a lock had been previously made before the function was called.
> 
> My patch is just to use the #ifdef CONFIG_SMP but I think that this may
> go against the kernel guidelines but I am not sure.
> 
> John


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