Re: question on spinlocks

From: Thunder from the hill (thunder@lightweight.ods.org)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 17:16:00 EST

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Hi,

On 1 Sep 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> spin_lock_irq(&lck);
> ...
> spin_unlock(&lck);
> schedule();
> spin_lock_irq(&lck);
> ...
> spin_unlock_irq(&lck);

That makes me understand his intention a lot more. I must have got beaten
up by the "irqsave".

Thunder

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