Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:28:18 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: {interruptible_,}sleep_on question |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 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()? > [SNIPPED]
The opposite. Nobody can sleep if a global lock is held or the interrupts are disabled. To do so is death.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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