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SubjectRe: deadlock avoidance?
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999, Davide Libenzi <dlibenzi@maticad.it> wrote:
>
> spin_lock_irqsave() guaranteed that only an uninterrupted CPU execute the
> code protected by the lock.
> See at this implementation ( optimization = 0.0 ) :
>
> struct s_nested_lock {
> spinlock_t lock;
> short int pid;
> short int count;
> };
>
>
> #define nested_lock(lock, flags) \
> if (lock->pid == getpid()) { \
> ++lock->count; \
> } else { \
> spin_lock_irqsave(&lock->lock, flags); \
> lock->pid = getpid(); \
> }
>
> #define nested_unlock(lock, flags) \
> if (--lock->count == 0) { \
> lock->pid = 0; \
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock->lock, flags); \
> }

What's the pid if we interrupt the idle task?

Is it unique for each CPU?

JE


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