Re: [PATCH 1/2] Spinlock timeout

[Jake Moilanen]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:14 -0600
jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> 
> You should also for the UP case of Linux keep a counter 
> and call BUG() when someone calls a spinlock twice rather than
> just push, cli, and pop interrupt flags.  Guess what, this
> allows you to catch most deadlock bugs with spinlocks 

Isn't this what CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is for?

Thanks,
Jake
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