Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: recursive spinlocks. Shoot. | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 18 May 2003 18:49:04 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 18:35, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > At some point in the past, Peter Breuer's attribution was removed from: > >> Here's a before-breakfast implementation of a recursive spinlock. That > >> is, the same thread can "take" the spinlock repeatedly. > > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Why? > > netconsole.
not really. the netconsole issue is tricky and recursive, but recursive locks aren't the solution; that would require a rewrite of the network drivers. It's far easier to solve it by moving the debug printk's instead. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |