Re: More general resource allocation scheme: a patch to look at

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:21:45 +0100 (BST)

> o Locking by cli/sti should be removed. Nobody needs to allocate
> resources from interrupts :) It's probably enough to define
> that these functions must be called with the big kernel lock held.

That makes me uncomfortable when we are starting to eliminate the big lock.
Better it has its own semaphore and we never claim resources on an IRQ.

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