Re: spinlocks() are severely broken in 2.2.X and 2.4.X for modules

[Keith Owens]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:32:15 +0200, 
"Andi Kleen" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Here is a quick hack. The results are slightly off because of section
>padding though. It only works on object files or modules (vmlinux doesn't
>have any reloc records) 

Why $SPINSIZE = 14?  On ix86 most .text.lock code is
  call helper
  jmp  1b
for 10 bytes.  But code like __build_read_lock_const generates a lot
more code.  One size does not fit all.