Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:15:36 -0500 | From | Jake Moilanen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Spinlock timeout |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:43:14 -0600 jmerkey@galt.devicelogics.com wrote:
> > > You should also for the UP case of Linux keep a counter > and call BUG() when someone calls a spinlock twice rather than > just push, cli, and pop interrupt flags. Guess what, this > allows you to catch most deadlock bugs with spinlocks
Isn't this what CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is for?
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