From: Oleg Nesterov This patch changes the code from: preempt_disable(); for (;;) { ... preempt_disable(); } to: for (;;) { preempt_disable(); ... } which seems more clean to me and saves a couple of bytes for each function. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/spinlock.c | 9 ++++----- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/spinlock.c~build_lock_ops-cleanup-preempt_disable-usage kernel/spinlock.c --- 25/kernel/spinlock.c~build_lock_ops-cleanup-preempt_disable-usage Thu Jan 19 14:03:50 2006 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/spinlock.c Thu Jan 19 14:03:50 2006 @@ -179,16 +179,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_write_lock); #define BUILD_LOCK_OPS(op, locktype) \ void __lockfunc _##op##_lock(locktype##_t *lock) \ { \ - preempt_disable(); \ for (;;) { \ + preempt_disable(); \ if (likely(_raw_##op##_trylock(lock))) \ break; \ preempt_enable(); \ + \ if (!(lock)->break_lock) \ (lock)->break_lock = 1; \ while (!op##_can_lock(lock) && (lock)->break_lock) \ cpu_relax(); \ - preempt_disable(); \ } \ (lock)->break_lock = 0; \ } \ @@ -199,19 +199,18 @@ unsigned long __lockfunc _##op##_lock_ir { \ unsigned long flags; \ \ - preempt_disable(); \ for (;;) { \ + preempt_disable(); \ local_irq_save(flags); \ if (likely(_raw_##op##_trylock(lock))) \ break; \ local_irq_restore(flags); \ - \ preempt_enable(); \ + \ if (!(lock)->break_lock) \ (lock)->break_lock = 1; \ while (!op##_can_lock(lock) && (lock)->break_lock) \ cpu_relax(); \ - preempt_disable(); \ } \ (lock)->break_lock = 0; \ return flags; \ _