Re: New kernel/resource.c

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:02:08 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> How are the internal lists protected on SMP?
> Do I have to own the kernel lock before calling one of these function?

My choice would be to have the callers protect it, but that may be asking
too much. I should probably just add a spinlock around it.

Linus

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