From 348d467644fe5553bda73d16babe52510ef47f47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:55:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 88288 b: refs/heads/master c:
 14dadf1d5eb5bea2dd115852cfee880505c1c169 h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                            |  2 +-
 trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 463796a6e56d..343d1dd1011b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d396c5f158547e50c2b78bc984cb4a72d76e969b
+refs/heads/master: 14dadf1d5eb5bea2dd115852cfee880505c1c169
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt b/trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
index 471e75389778..619699dde593 100644
--- a/trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
+++ b/trunk/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,28 @@ Please use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()/DEFINE_RWLOCK() or
 __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED()/__RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as appropriate for static
 initialization.
 
+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.
+
 Dynamic initialization, when necessary, may be performed as
 demonstrated below.