Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:28:48 +0200 | From | Rodolfo Giometti <> | Subject | Re: LinuxPPS & spinlocks |
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:08:58PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > >> The pps_event() is now protected by a spinlock against >> pps_register_source() and pps_unregister_source()... > > Locks protect data, not code. It may make more sense to identify the > specific data being protected by the spinlock.
What do you mean? Did you find an error into my patch? :-o
Functions pps_event() and pps_register_source()/pps_unregister_source() take accesso to shared data, that's why I used spinlocks.
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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