Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:05:04 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: question on spinlocks |
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:27:53PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> is the following sequence legal ? > > spin_lock_irqsave(...); > ... > spin_unlock(...); > schedule(); > spin_lock(...); > ... > spin_unlock_irqrestore(...);
No; spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore and spin_lock/spin_unlock have to be used in matching pairs.
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