Re: Multi Processor Safe!

Tom Holroyd (tomh@nibh.go.jp)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:25:19 +0900 (JST)


On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, G Jalaja Devi wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tim Waugh wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, G Jalaja Devi wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I want to know how the multi-processor safe can be handled in the
>> > linux-driver?
>> > I referred spinlock which does not give much info about it.
>> ^^^^^^^^
>> Have you read Documentation/spinlocks.txt?
> There is no file called spinlocks.txt. There is a file locks.txt. That
>doesn't serve the purpose.

spinlocks.txt is in Linux 2.2. So is SMP, so I'd suggest getting it.

Dr. Tom Holroyd
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