>Is it correct that drivers which call {interruptible_,}sleep_on can miss
>wakeup events unless they either own the big kernel lock or the
>global-cli lock before calling sleep_on()?
Yes in general. They should instead check for the event after they have
set the state to [un]interruptible and they are registered in the
waitqueue.
Andrea
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