Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:22 +1000 | |
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 12:15:03 Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:17:22AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 03:29:14 Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > > Mutexes are not allowed in interrupt context, not even mutex_trylock.
> >
> > As an aside, does anyone know why? I know the documentation says so, but
> > it wasn't immediately obvious to me. I asked before to no response...
>
> Because mutexes have an owner. In interrupt context, there is no owner.
> This owner is used to do priority boosts as well as debugging.
Shows how little I know, I didn't see priority boosting in my glance thru
mutex.c.
But it seems like mutex_trylock_irq would be easy to add if needed, if only
for clarity.
Thanks!
Rusty.
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