Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (Updated) Preemptible Kernel | Date | Fri, 7 Sep 2001 03:10:56 +0200 |
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On September 6, 2001 10:39 pm, Phillip Susi wrote: > ... what happens if > say, the kernel called from user space is holding a lock, and gets preempted?
The thread will eventually get rescheduled and release the lock.
> Is there a mechanism to disable preemption while holding locks or at other > resources that need to be freed before another task is run?
IIRC spinlocks inhibit scheduling, the simplest way to handle that.
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