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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ to change the variables it has to get an exclusive write lock.
The routines look the same as above:
- rwlock_t xxx_lock = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+ rwlock_t xxx_lock = __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(xxx_lock);
unsigned long flags;
@@ -196,25 +196,3 @@ appropriate:
For static initialization, use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() / DEFINE_RWLOCK() or
__SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED() / __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as appropriate.
-
-SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED are deprecated. These interfere
-with lockdep state tracking.
-
-Most of the time, you can simply turn:
- static spinlock_t xxx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
-into:
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock);
-
-Static structure member variables go from:
-
- struct foo bar {
- .lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
- };
-
-to:
-
- struct foo bar {
- .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(bar.lock);
- };
-
-Declaration of static rw_locks undergo a similar transformation.