Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:01:28 +0530 (IST) | From | Satyam Sharma <> | Subject | Re: LinuxPPS & spinlocks |
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Hi Rodolfo,
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:39:38AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > Nopes, this isn't quite correct/safe. I suggest you should read: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/ > > I read it but still I don't see why my solution isn't correct/safe. :)
What does the section on locking between hard irq contexts (or between user process context and hard irq context) say?
> Can you please propose to me your solution?
As I said, you could just use the spin_lock_irqsave/restore() variants ... If you want, I can try and implement the other bits that I had suggested for the other things as well :-)
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