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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> rspin locks are for these types of cases -- so if I fault on the same
> processor I took the lock on it just bumps a counter -- yes, it is atomic
> and SMP safe to do it this way.

Only if all contexts which take rlocks are not preemptible. Which I
don't know whether they are; I'm just a driver guy. You use
spin_lock_irqsave() rather than plain spin_lock() though, which
indicates that you want to be able to take the locks from preemptible
contexts too. In that case, your accessors are subtly buggy.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/


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