Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:09:30 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: question on spinlocks |
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>> > No; spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore and spin_lock/spin_unlock >> > have to be used in matching pairs. >[...] > OK, how do I drop an irqsave spinlock if I don't have flags?
It was a good thing you didn't have flags, because everything that passes flags as arguments blows up on sparc immediately.
Most likely answer is "restructure your locking".
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