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SubjectRe: question about preempt_disable()
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Hi,

Rob Love wrote:
> Further, on uniprocessor systems, we don't have deadlocks so it is the
> preempt_disable() that actually ensures concurrency is prevented in the
> critical region.
>
We don't have _spin_locks.

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