Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:11:38 -0800
From: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@sgi.com>
Right, if it were a sleep point, I agree.
But my understanding is that down_trylock()
is not one of those: isn't it used for conditionally
acquiring the semaphore?
True, sorry, thinko.
But still, my other point holds, you should not IRQ disable
when performing semaphore operations.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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