Re: mechanism to syncronise device access from user and kernel

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:28:27AM -0800, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a device whose registers are accessed by driver as well as user space application via mmap() area.
> 
> How to synchronize the access (avoid race condition) between user space driver and kernel mode driver, in single CPU and multi-CPU systems?

Rewrite userspace to use the kernel driver?

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