Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: spinlocking between user context / tasklet / tophalf question | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:13:26 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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.
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