Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:40:14 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: LinuxPPS & spinlocks |
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Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> 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.
My point is that the lock should be used to protect specific data. Thus, it would be more correct to say, "spinlock foo is taken because pps_register_source() accesses variable bar".
That way, if someone else wants to access "bar", they know that they need to take lock "foo".
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