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SubjectRe: spinlocking between user context / tasklet / tophalf question
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> Tasklets are run in interrupt context.  You need the irq versions of the

Not always. Ksoftirqd...


> spinlock in kernel space. In tasklet space a simple spinlock should be
> enough as the tasklet can not be reentered.

That depends what you are locking against.
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